Ultrasound findings of liver damage in a series of patients consecutively admitted for treatment of alcohol use disorder

Liver disease is one of the leading causes of death in the world (Jewell and Sheron, 2010), mainly due to chronic viral hepatitis, alcoholic liver disease, and non-alcoholic liver disease (Setiawan et al., 2016). Both in the U.S and some European countries, there has been an increase in liver-related mortality due to end-stage liver disease, mostly because of the impact of alcohol consumption (Jinjuvadia et al., 2015; Williams et al., 2014). Liver injury related to alcohol consumption is a growing cause of liver-related morbidity and mortality worldwide (Friedmann, 2013; Rehm et al., 2013).
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