| Examples of Causes/Conditions
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| Drugs, toxins, a variety of liver diseases
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| PBC (Primary biliary cirrhosis), PSC (Primary sclerosing cholangitis), Autoimmune hepatitis
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| Birth defect
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| Hypercoagulable disorders, liver injury, cancer, parasitic infection
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| Can be caused by most other liver diseases but usually a result of chronic hepatitis, alcoholism, or chronic bile duct obstruction
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| Hemochromatosis, Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, Wilson's disease
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| Viruses, alcohol abuse, drugs, toxins, autoimmune, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
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| Viral hepatitis, Parasitic infection
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| Increased risk with cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis; hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is most common primary liver tumor
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| Tumors, gallstones, inflammation, trauma
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