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Online Resources on Liver Disease and Transplant

Following are links to more information on liver disease, organ donation and transplant.

• General Liver Disease
• Liver Transplant
• Alternative and Complementary Therapies
• ERCP
• Hemochromatosis
• Hepatitis
• Organ Sharing Networks and Government Agencies
• Chinese Information on Liver Disease

General Liver Disease

• American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD)


• American Liver Foundation


• Diseases of the Liver (College of Physicians & Surgeons at Columbia University)


• Digestive Diseases Dictionary (National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse)


• Definitions, Glossary from Hepnet


• FASTATS: Chronic Liver Disease/Cirrhosis (National Center for Health Statistics)


• MEDLINEplus Liver Disease General National Library of Medicine

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Liver Transplant

• Liver Transplant The National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse


• TransWeb includes personal accounts of the transplant experience, lifestyle information for transplant patients and details about organ donation.


• Transplant Recipients International Organiztion (TRIO) - Transplantation and organ donation information and resources for transplant candidates, recipients, donors and their families.

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Alternative and Complementary Therapies

• NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine


• Office of Dietary Supplements - Background on dietary supplements from the National Institutes of Health


• U.S. Pharmacopoeia - Drug and dietary supplement information


• Consumer Lab Reviews on vitamins, herbs and other supplements


• Medwatch U.S. Food & Drug Administration site containing a searchable database that lists adverse effects and problems associated with the use of herbal products.

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ERCP

• Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse)


• Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (Healthwise)

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Hemochromatosis

• Hemochromatosis (National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

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Hepatitis

• See websites listed in our Hepatitis C section.


• Autoimmune Hepatitis

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Organ Sharing Networks and Government Agencies

• California Transplant Donor Network The Bay Area's local organ procurement organization.


• UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing UNOS administers the national Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN).


• Donate Life - National Coalition on Organ Donation

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Chinese Information on Liver Disease

• Facts on Hepatitis B (Chinese version) (PDF, 870KB) produced by Hepatitis B Foundation

(Download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader)

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