Common Liver Diseases in Children | Pediatric Hepatology Program
About Liver Disease
Most children who receive treatment for liver disease, including liver transplants, recover from their illness or can lead productive lives with continued care.
The Pediatric Hepatology team at Phoenix Children’s Hospital provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary diagnoses and treatment options. These may include experimental and state-of-the-art procedures, to ensure that your child has the best opportunity to recover and thrive.
Pediatric Liver Diseases
There are many diseases that affect the liver and our specialists treat, including:
- Acute liver failure
- Alagille syndrome
- Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD)
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
- Bile acid synthesis defect
- Biliary atresia
- Budd-Chiari Syndrome
- Caroli’s disease
- Cirrhosis/chronic liver failure
- Crigler-Najjar syndrome
- Cystic fibrosis liver disease
- Glycogen storage disease (GSD)
- Hemochromatosis
- Hepatoblastoma
- Hypercholesterolemia
- Metabolic diseases
- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
- Organic acidemias
- Primary hyperoxaluria
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis
- Tyrosinemia
- Urea cycle defects
- Viral Hepatitis
- Wilson disease
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