Liver Disease: 4 Stages

What are the stages of chronic liver disease? First, consider the image above — it shows a healthy liver becoming “Fatty,” proceeding to then Fibrosis, Cirrhosis and Cancer.Indeed, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) is associated with a...

Liver Transplants in the USA: 10 Fast Facts

A liver transplant replaces a diseased or injured liver with a healthy one. In 2024, there were 11,458 liver transplants performed in the United States, which was a 7.5% increase from 2023.  Liver transplants are performed on adults and children with severe liver...

Nomenclature for Fatty Liver Disease

Broadly, there is a form of Fatty Liver Disease that is associated with alcohol use (ALD for Alcohol-associated Liver Disease) and a form that is NOT associated with alcohol use (NAFLD for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease). And of late, we now have MASH and MASLD as...

Liver Disease: 1 in 4 US Adults

At LiverRight, we aim to deLIVER on Liver™. By 2018, federal data showed that 42% of adults had some form of fatty liver disease.Steatotic liver disease (SLD) involves having excess fat in your liver. Metabolic conditions and heavy alcohol use are risk factors....