Dear Colleagues,

Liver diseases are an important health issue with an increasing incidence worldwide. From diffuse parenchymal impairment—due to infectious, toxic, metabolic, vascular, autoimmune factors or congenital malformations—leading to steatosis, fibrosis, hepatitis, cholangiopathies and/or cirrhosis, to primary or secondary focal liver lesions, the diagnosis must be precise and made in the early stages of disease, independently of its presentation—acute, chronic, acute-on-chronic or end-stage liver disease. Only in this way can patients receive the best care. Laboratory tests, imaging techniques, liver and/or tumor biopsy and pathological findings after surgery are essential tools for diagnosis that trigger specific therapeutic protocols based on a series of medical, interventional and surgical therapies, including liver resection and transplantation. Moreover, in surgical patients, diagnosis, with its corresponding therapeutic protocols, is a continuous process during preoperative (lab tests, imaging, biopsy); intraoperative (ultrasound, cholangiography, fluorescence imaging, etc.); and postoperative phases (lab tests, imaging, pathological findings).

This Special Issue is an update for internists, radiologists, gastroenterologists, hepatologists, anesthesiologists, pathologists and liver surgeons in the assessment and management of patients with liver disease.

Dr. Florin Botea
Guest Editor

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