Diagnosing and Treating Liver Diseases

The liver’s main job is to filter the blood coming from the digestive tract before passing it to the rest of the body. The liver also detoxifies chemicals, metabolizes drugs and makes important blood proteins. Liver diseases can be caused by a host of conditions, all of which prohibit the liver from functioning properly.

Hepatitis, a commonly treated liver disease, affects millions of individuals globally. It is associated with several diseases such as liver cancer. In particular, hepatitis B and hepatitis C are major causes of liver cancer, while alcohol abuse has been linked to cirrhosis and other serious complications.

While the most frequent conditions liver specialists deal with are viral hepatitis and alcohol-related disease, Mercy Health offers comprehensive care solutions across all areas of liver disease.   

Services We Offer

• Ultrasound
• Liver function tests
• Liver surgery
• Image-guided liver biopsy
• Liver-directed chemotherapy
• Liver tumor ablation
• MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and MRCP (magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography)
• PET-CT (positron emission tomography-computed tomography)
• Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography
• Radiation therapy
• Robotic therapy
• Laparoscopic surgery
• TIPS (transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt)
• Transjugular liver biopsy
• Triphasic liver CT scanning