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Disease liver disease
Phenotype C0019187|alcoholic hepatitis
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PubMedID- 22825549 In the case of indeterminate previous liver function, the patients who are hbv carriers and those with autoimmune hepatitis are diagnosed as having “acute liver failure” when no liver function impairment preceding the exacerbation of the liver injury can be confirmed.note 2: in general, alcoholic hepatitis develops in patients with chronic liver diseases caused by habitual alcohol consumption.
PubMedID- 21819471 Alcohol is furthermore linked to various forms of liver disease (particularly with fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis) and pancreatitis.
PubMedID- 25323125 Patients with severe acute alcoholic hepatitis, a distinct subset of alcoholic liver disease have a potential for mortality in about 25% within about 1 month despite treatment with available specific agents such as corticosteroids and/or pentoxifylline.
PubMedID- 24377696 Severe forms of alcoholic hepatitis in patients with alcoholic liver disease are associated with high mortality; it is therefore vital to identify those patients at greatest risk of mortality in 28 days as they may benefit from aggressive intervention.
PubMedID- 25287171 All patients were also negative for hepatitis b surface antigen and hiv and had no evidence of other liver diseases, including alcoholic hepatitis, hemochromatosis, wilson’s disease, and autoimmune hepatitis and had not received immunosuppressive therapy before enrollment in the study.
PubMedID- 23101979 alcoholic hepatitis is a form of severe, cholestatic liver disease that results from consumption of large amount of alcohol during a sustained period of time in a subset of alcoholics.

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