Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Liver Disease: Looking after Your Liver
This course explored how your liver works, ways to look after it and how liver damage is caused, studied and treated around the world.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dr Patricia F. Lalor
Senior Lecturer
University of Birmingham
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe the anatomy and function of the liver, and understand how individual cell types contribute to these
- Compare the signs and symptoms of liver disease and understand what causes them
- Discuss the major global causes of liver disease
- Reflect on the varied causes of liver disease
- Explore treatments for different types of liver disease and understand the challenges of treatment
- Explore how diet impacts on the function of both healthy and diseased livers
Syllabus
- Liver anatomy and function
- Regeneration
- Viruses, autoimmunity, alcohol and metabolic disease
- Jaundice
- Fibrosis
- Diet and the liver
Issued on 11th June 2018
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