Liver Diseases

Some liver diseases can be treated. But when a child reaches or will soon reach end-stage liver disease, or liver failure, liver transplant is the treatment of choice.

Learn more about liver failure.

Liver Diseases That Can Lead to Liver Failure

Acute liver failure

• Fulminant hepatic failure
• Acute hepatitis, including infectious A, B and C viruses

Chronic liver failure

• Chronic hepatitis B and C
• Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency
• Biliary atresia
• Cirrhosis
• Alagille syndrome
• Autoimmune hepatitis
• Cystic fibrosis liver disease
• Primary sclerosing cholangitis

Tumors

• Hepatoblastoma
• Hepatocellular carcinoma

Metabolic disorders

• Familial intrahepatic cholestasis
• Wilson's disease
• Glycogen storage disease
• Maple syrup urine disease
• Propionic acidemia
• Crigler-Najjar syndrome
• Urea cycle disorders