Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and non
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Raj Vuppalanchi; Naga Chalasani
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is among the most common causes of chronic liver disease in the western world. It is now recognized that these patients have myriad of important co-morbidities (e.g., diabetes, hypothyroidism and metabolic syndrome). The workup of patients with suspected NAFL