AASLD Practice Guidelines: Alcoholic Liver Disease

Zusammenfassung

AASLD PRACTICE GUIDELINES Alcoholic Liver Disease Robert S. O’Shea, Srinivasan Dasarathy, Arthur J. McCullough, and the Practice Guideline Committee of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the Practice Parameters Committee of the American College of Gastroenterology This guideline has been approved by the American Asso- ciation for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and the American College of Gastroenterology and represents the position of both associations. Preamble

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Many of the natural history stud- ies of ALD, and even treatment trials, were performed before these other liver diseases were recognized, or spe- cific testing was possible. Thus, the individual effect of alcohol in some of these studies may have been con- founded by the presence of these additiona...

From the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH. Received August 21, 2009; accepted August 21, 2009. Address reprint requests to: Arthur J. McCullough, Departmental Chair, Gas- troenterology and Hepatology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid A...

Even in develop- ing regions of the world, however, alcohol accounts for a major portion of global disease burden, and is projected to take on increasing importance in those regions over time. 22,23 II. Disease Spectrum The spectrum of alcohol-related liver injury varies from simple steatosis to cir...

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