Hepatology is a specialty of gastroenterology. It deals with diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the liver and bile ducts with the gallbladder and pancreas.
Diseases treated by hepatologists include, for example:
- Infections of the liver (mainly viral infections such as hepatitis, but also bacterial infections and infestations with parasites such as liver fluke and amoebae)
- Liver abscesses
- alcohol-toxic or drug-induced liver diseases
- jaundice
- fatty liver
- cirrhosis of the liver
- liver insufficiency
- tumors (such as liver cancer, liver metastases, gallbladder cancer)
- Inflammation of the bile ducts
- Gallstones
- Bile flow disorders
- congenital malformations of the liver
- acute fatty liver of pregnancy
