There are over one hundred liver disorders. Some common types are:
- hepatitis (inflammation of the liver)
- cirrhosis (scarring of the liver)
- gallstones (which gather wherever there is bile, usually in the gall bladder),
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
- Cancer of the liver
- Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (which destroys medium sized bile ducts within the liver)
- Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (which the bile ducts progressively decrease in size)
- Haemochromatosis (iron overload)
- Wilson’s disease (where the body cannot control copper levels)
- Biliary Atresia (causing the obstruction of bile flow in babies).