Diagnosis and Treatment of Liver Diseases

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Topic

The aim of the course is to give a comprehensive view of the current diagnosis and treatment of liver diseases. The lectures overview the most important liver diseases such as alcoholic liver disease, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, autoimmune liver diseases, chronic viral hepatitis B and C, drug induced liver diseases and genetic liver diseases. This course is a very useful supplement of the gastroenterology subject where we teach hepatology in a few hours.

Content of the course, lecture titles:

1.-2. hours: Laboratory diagnosis of liver diseases: biochemistry, virology, immunology and transent elastography (Gabriella Par)

3.-4. hours: Pathology of the liver, the role of liver biopsy in clinical practice (prof. Laszlo Pajor)

5.-6. hours: The role of radiology in hepatology (Nandor Faluhegyi)

7.-8. hours: The role of endoscopy in liver and bileduct diseases (Imre Szabo)

9.-10. hours: Hepatocellular carcinoma (Gabriella Par)

11.-12. hours: Diagnosis and treatment of acute hepatitis (Zsuzsanna Nemes)

13.-14. hours: Current treatment of chronic hepatitis (prof. Alajos Pár)

15.-16. hours: Liver surgery (Károly Nagy Kalmar)

17.-18. hours: Alcoholic liver disease (Gabriella Par)

19.-20. hours: Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (prof. Alajos Par)

21.-22. hours: Autoimmune liver diseases (Gabriella Par)

23. 24. hours: Etiology and complications of cirrhosis (Szilárd Godi)

Lectures

Practices

Seminars

• 1. Laboratory diagnosis of liver diseases: biochemistry, virology, immunology and transent elastography - Pár Gabriella
• 2. Laboratory diagnosis of liver diseases: biochemistry, virology, immunology and transent elastography - Pár Gabriella
• 3. Drug treatment of liver disease - Pár Alajos
• 4. Wilson disease - Pár Alajos
• 5. Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis - Pár Alajos
• 6. Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis - Pár Alajos
• 7. Primary biliary cholangitis, primary sclerotising cholangitis - Pár Gabriella
• 8. Autoimmune hepatitis - Pár Gabriella
• 9. Pathology of the liver, the role of liver biopsy in clinical practice - Pajor László
• 10. Pathology of the liver, the role of liver biopsy in clinical practice - Pajor László
• 11. Diagnosis and treatment of acute hepatitis - Nemes Zsuzsanna
• 12. Diagnosis and treatment of acute hepatitis - Nemes Zsuzsanna
• 13. Alcoholic liver disease - Vincze Áron Endre
• 14. Alcoholic liver disease - Vincze Áron Endre
• 15. Chronic viral hepatitis - Hunyady Béla
• 16. Chronic viral hepatitis - Hunyady Béla
• 17. Liver surgery - Kalmár Nagy Károly
• 18. Liver surgery - Kalmár Nagy Károly
• 19. The role of interventional radiology in hepatology - Faluhelyi Nándor
• 20. The role of interventional radiology in hepatology - Faluhelyi Nándor
• 21. The role of endoscopy in liver and bileduct diseases - Szabó Imre (I. Bel)
• 22. The role of endoscopy in liver and bileduct diseases - Szabó Imre (I. Bel)
• 23. Drug induced liver injury - Pár Gabriella
• 24. Drug induced liver injury - Pár Gabriella

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

PPT presentations of the lectures will be available

Notes

Recommended literature

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

-

Mid-term exams

Written simple choice test from the lectures at the end of course

Making up for missed classes

none

Exam topics/questions

The content of the lectures.

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Faluhelyi Nándor
• Hunyady Béla
• Kalmár Nagy Károly
• Nemes Zsuzsanna
• Pajor László
• Pár Alajos
• Pár Gabriella
• Szabó Imre (I. Bel)
• Vincze Áron Endre