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Hepatic disease Micrograph of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease Specialty Gastroenterology Types Fatty liver disease , Hepatitis(and several more) [1] Diagnostic method Liver function tests [2] Treatment Depends on type(See types) Liver disease (also called hepatic disease ) is a type of damage to or disease of the liver. [1] Contents 1 Associated medical conditions (types) 2 Mechanism 2.1 DNA damage 2.2 Other relevant aspects 2.3 Air Pollutants 3 Diagnosis 4 Treatment 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links Associated medical conditions (types) Ground glass hepatocytes Primary biliary cirrhosis Budd-chiari syndrome There are more than a hundred different kinds of liver disease. Symptoms may include jaundice and weight loss. These are some of the most common: [3] Fascioliasis, a parasitic infection of liver caused by a liver fluke of the genus Fasciola , mostly the Fasciola hepatica . [4] Hepatitis, inflammation of the liver, is caused by various viruses ...