Viral Hepatitis – Which Virus?
Your task: watch this short video in which Professor David Mutimer discusses the various viruses that can cause liver disease. Professor Mutimer is an Honorary Consultant Hepatologist at the Queen …
Course: Liver Disease: Looking after Your Liver
Diet and your liver – Transplant patients
Your task: Watch this video, the third in our series where Jill Johnson will focus on advice for those who have received a liver transplant. She covers the immediate period …
Diet and your liver – Patients with liver disease
Your task: Watch this video, the second in our series, in which Jill Johnson explains the importance of diet for your liver. Reflect on any new information or ideas and …
Diet and your liver – Healthy Individuals
Your task: Watch this video, in which Jill Johnson, a Specialist Dietician for Liver Patients explains how important a healthy lifestyle is for your liver. Reflect on any new information …
What does the future hold for patients with liver disease?
Your task: Watch this video and try to remember the areas which Dr Holt considers will be important in the future. Consider how these fit with some of the new …
Drugs for liver disease – a Hepatologist’s perspective
Your task: Watch the video interview with Dr Holt which serves as an introduction to how doctors can look after your liver. You may want to contrast this later with …
Non-transplant surgery
Your task: Watch this video interview with Richard Laing, a General Surgical registrar currently researching Liver Transplantation at the University of Birmingham and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in which he …
Viral Hepatitis – How does it damage your liver?
Your task: watch this short video in which Professor David Mutimer discusses how liver specific viruses can damage this organ. If you would like to find out more information about …
Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)
Your task: Watch this video where we discuss Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), where liver damage is caused by the accumulation of fat in the liver. If you would like …
Alcohol and drugs
Your task: watch this short video in which Dr Andy Holt discusses alcohol and drug mediated liver damage. Dr Holt is a Consultant Hepatologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital with …
Autoimmune Liver Disease
Your task: watch this short video in which Dr Gideon Hirschfield discusses the signs and symptoms of autoimmune mediated liver disease. Dr Hirschfield is a Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant …
Introduction to Week 2
In this video Dr Zania Stamataki welcomes you to the second week of the course and introduces some of the concepts that we will be covering. The course has been …
What does the liver do?
Your task: Watch this video in which Dr Patricia Lalor explains the various functions of the liver, from digestion to detoxification. See if you can connect some of the cell …
The cells of the liver
Your task: Watch this video in which Dr Patricia Lalor guides you through an exploration of the cells of the liver. Look out for some of the cells which Professor …
The liver under the microscope
Your task: Watch this video in which Professor Stefan Hubscher, a liver Pathologist in Birmingham, examines a sample of liver under the microscope and describes the micro-anatomy of both a …
