Which liver diseases are the most common?

In adults, cirrhosis, the death of liver cells due to a variety of causes, is one of the most common reasons for which liver transplantation is done. In children, the disease most often treated by liver transplantation is biliary atresia, a failure of the bile ducts to develop normally to drain bile from the liver.

Hep C

Here's a list:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/...

hepatomegaly (enlarged liver)

You question is a little too vague. But in general. It would probably be viral hepatitis (hepatitis A, B and C), hepatocellular carcinoma, cirrhosis, alcoholic liver disease and other infections diseases depending on which part of the world you come from.

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