Liver diseases

Treating patients with viral hepatitis, such as chronic hepatitis B (HBV) or chronic hepatitis C (HCV), is another focus of our liver outpatient clinic. While chronic hepatitis B infection requires lifelong care, hepatitis C can be completely cured thanks to direct antiviral substances. Patients with chronic viral hepatitis B and C are cared for in our outpatient clinic.

Patients with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) or chronic bile duct disease such as PSC (primary sclerosing cholangitis), PBC (primary biliary cholangitis), IGG4-associated cholangitis and SSC secondary sclerosing cholangitis are also in good hands with us. These diseases are sometimes difficult to diagnose. If left untreated, they often lead to advanced liver disease in middle age. Therefore, it is essential to have early, professional diagnosis and treatment in a specialised liver clinic.

Our hepatology outpatient clinic also focuses on rarer metabolic diseases of the liver such as Wilson's disease (copper storage disease), haemochromatosis (iron storage disease) and alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency.

MASLD (metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease)

One of the most common liver diseases is MASLD. Our liver outpatient clinic also provides comprehensive diagnosis, advice and treatment for patients with this liver disease.

Liver cirrhosis, in which liver tissue becomes scarred and loses function, is a risk with all chronic liver diseases. This can have serious consequences, such as the formation of fluid in the abdomen (ascites), problems with concentration (encephalopathy), bleeding in the oesophagus and/or stomach (varices), impaired blood clotting and metabolic processes, increased susceptibility to infection and much more. In medical terminology, this is called decompensation of liver cirrhosis. A further consequence of chronic liver disease can be cancer of the liver cells (hepatocellular carcinoma - HCC).

We offer all the technological procedures and treatment methods required for diagnosis and therapy. We are also ideally equipped for intensive medical monitoring with our own intensive care unit 92. Some treatment options, such as the local treatment of liver tumours using radio frequency ablation (RFTA) and transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE) or TIPS (transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent shunt), are carried out in close collaboration with the institute for X-ray diagnostics at the UKR. We also work closely with the Departments of Surgery and Anaesthesiology for patients undergoing surgical treatment - from partial liver resection to liver transplantation.

Benign liver tumours are abnormal cell growths in the liver that do not spread to surrounding tissue. They can be caused by a number of things. We diagnose and treat liver cysts, liver failure, liver adenomas, liver haemangiomas and focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH).