Abstract

Chronic liver diseases are quite frequent in daily medical activity. Chronic viral hepatitis (B or C), alcoholic or non-alcoholic liver diseases (ASH or NASH) are not rarely encountered and the evaluation of such patients is an important part of a hepatologist’ activity. Confronted with such a patient, correct disease assessment is important for the decision of treatment (especially in chronic viral hepatitis) and for prognosis. But what does assessment mean? Usually we want to find out the severity of necro-inflammation (grading) and the stage of fibrosis (staging) in the liver. In some liver diseases, the presence of typical histological signs of disease should be assessed (such as in ASH, in primary biliary cirrhosis - PBC, in autoimmune hepatitis).

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