Episode Details

In this episode I cover alcoholic liver disease and alcohol dependence syndrome.

If you want to follow along with written notes on alcoholic liver disease and alcohol dependence syndrome go to zerotofinals.com/ald or find the gastroenterology section in the Zero to Finals medicine book.

This episode covers the stepwise progression of alcohol damage to the liver from alcohol related fatty changes, alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis, recommended alcohol consumption, screening tools for problematic alcohol consumption, complications, signs, investigations and management of alcoholic liver disease and alcohol dependence. We also discuss alcohol withdrawal, delerium tremens and Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome.