Fact Sheets

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Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis refers to the final, advanced stage of several diseases that affect the liver and cause it to scar.
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Alcohol-related Liver Disease
Alcohol-related liver disease is liver damage caused by excessive consumption of alcohol. Learn about symptoms and treatment.
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Fatty Liver Disease
Fatty liver disease (fat deposits in the liver) can lead to serious medical problems. Weight loss is often an effective treatment for this condition.
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Liver Transplant
When the liver fails, due to cancer and other illnesses, a transplant from a deceased or living donor can offer effective treatment.
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Pediatric Liver Transplants
Pediatric liver transplants at Yale Medicine are extremely safe and successful, and can cure many cases of childhood liver failure.
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Liver Cancer
A type of cancer that starts in the liver and can cause stomach pain and swelling and jaundice.
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Avoiding Infectious Diseases
There are all sorts of ways to get an infectious disease—from people and animals, to eating contaminated foods, to environmental exposure.
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) impairs the immune system by infecting certain immune cells.
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Clinical Trials
New drugs and medical treatments need to go through a series tests called clinical trials. This is how new and better treatments are made possible.
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Long COVID (Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS CoV-2 infection, PASC)
Long COVID occurs when symptoms—new, continuing, or recurrent—arise four or more weeks after the initial coronavirus infection.