Liver disease
Framing
- Liver disease is classified by tempo (acute vs chronic) and, within chronic disease, by aetiology (alcoholic being the most common, alongside a group of less common but important specific causes) - tempo determines whether the priority is monitoring for acute liver failure versus staging fibrosis/cirrhosis and screening for complications
- Identifying the specific aetiology in chronic liver disease matters because several causes (haemochromatosis, Wilson disease, autoimmune hepatitis, viral hepatitis) have disease-modifying or curative treatment available if identified before advanced fibrosis develops
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