Rare Liver Diseases

After ten days in the hospital and an ERCP (a scope of the bile ducts), they diagnosed me with PSC. The ERCP showed that my bile ducts were narrowed and the bile was being blocked.

After several months in and out of the hospital, numerous tests and a biopsy, Christian was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis before his first birthday.

Alison had been suffering for most of her life with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), a chronic disease that slowly damages the bile ducts.

PSC is a disease-causing bile duct inflammation and scarring that eventually leads to liver failure. Its cause is unknown and its only cure is liver transplant.

I was born and diagnosed at the age of two with Tyrosinemia, a very rare metabolic disease. This is where the liver doesn’t have the proper enzymes it needs to break down protein.

When Jordan was 16, he was diagnosed with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC) and although he strived to keep his dream alive, he suffered from major infectious attacks from his disease.

My husband was diagnosed with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC). PSC is a Chronic liver disease where the biliary system of the liver suffer chronic inflammation.

I was first diagnosed with PBC in 2010, after months of medications that weren’t helping or working the way my Doctor hoped. Upon further testing, I was diagnosed with PSC in 2011.

His medical and transplant teams spent the next three months stabilizing Leonard’s condition so he could receive a liver transplant. Prolonged use of OTC medications had damaged his liver.

It took many hospital visits, inconclusive tests and finally a visit to learn Emma had Crigler-Najjar Syndrome, a rare life-threatening genetic condition that affects the liver.

Having a child with a rare genetic liver disease can be filled with so much fear, anxiety and uncertainty. Our son Isaac, 17, has genetic mutations on his ABCB11 gene.

Towards the end of my pregnancy I developed an unbearable itch over my entire body. I was diagnosed with cholestasis of pregnancy.