Conditions Treated in Hepatology
The liver, the second-largest organ of your body – and the largest internal organ, because the largest organ is the skin – helps in digestion and in removing impurities from the body. It filters out all of the unwanted and unneeded compounds from the food and drinks that you consume. Our liver also produces bile, which helps your body metabolize fat. The bile is stored in the gallbladder until it is needed for digestion in the small intestines. The branch of medicine specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of the liver’s various functions, abnormalities, and diseases is called hepatology. A hepatologist is a doctor who specializes in the illnesses and health of the liver, pancreas, and gallbladder, as these organs work very closely together Conditions Treated in Hepatology Some of the main conditions that hepatologists treat are the following: Bile Duct Cancer The bile duct is composed of many small channels in your liver . This duct continues to the duodenum, which is the fir