Evaluating Liver Test Abnormalities
Understanding the Pathophysiology of Liver Disease
for Health Care Providers
Differential Diagnosis Key Point
It is useful to think of liver disease as being either acute or chronic. Though there are many potential etiologies, the list of most common causes can be narrowed down depending on the pattern of injury, specifically acute hepatocellular, chronic hepatocellular, acute cholestatic and chronic cholestatic injury.