BSN Additional consultative staff rotate in the clinic from the Uniform Service Medical School, Bethesda Navel Hospital and the Department of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The Liver Clinic is a center of expertise in liver disease. It has a dual function, to provide consultations to referred patients with liver disease and to provide teaching to our graduate medical education staff. In addition, the clinic is active in clinical research. You may be asked to participate in a study protocol.
Many questions are unanswered concerning various aspects of liver disorders.
The Liver Clinic is actively involved in the study of viral hepatitis, fatty liver disease and alcohol liver disease. Manufactures new proteins. Makes clotting factors to help blood clot. Hepatitis is a general term that refers to inflammation of the liver. Viral infection, alcohol, and medication are the most common causes of hepatitis.