Liver Biopsy
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Chronic liver disease: Liver disease persisting over a long period of time. Liver transplantation: Surgery to replace a disease liver with a healthy one from a donor. Jugular vein: Veins in the neck which drain the brain, face, and neck into the brachiocephalic or sub-clavian veins. Blood clotting: Number of different protein factors which, when acting together, can form a blood clot shortly after platelets have broken at the site of the wound. Cirrhosis: Liver disease characterised pathologically by loss of the normal microscopic lobular architecture, with fibrosis and nodular regeneration. The term is sometimes used to refer to chronic interstitial inflammation of any organ. Auto immune disease: A disease process that involves the production of host antibodies to host tissue |
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