liver disease
Let an agent explain categories of liver disease in general terms, route symptoms to care, describe prevention, diagnosis and treatment with attribution, and support people living with liver disease without individual medical advice.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Care Symptoms and routing.
Symptoms
When to seek care.
Symptoms
Symptoms.
- Which symptoms, such as jaundice, abdominal swelling, confusion or bleeding, warrant assessment or urgent care, according to guidance? provenance
- Is there an emergency now? boundary
Tests
Liver tests.
Tests
Tests.
- What do liver function tests and imaging show, in general terms? definition
- Is the user asking about their own results, which needs a clinician? boundary
Understand Kinds of liver disease.
Types
Categories.
Types
Categories.
- What are the main categories of liver disease, and how do their causes differ? definition
- Which entry fits a specific disease? action
Tumours
Liver tumours.
Tumours
Tumours.
- What are benign and malignant liver tumours, including hepatoma and childhood liver neoplasms, in general terms? provenance
- How are they detected? provenance
Manage Prevention and treatment.
Prevent
Prevention.
Prevent
Prevention.
- How can liver disease be prevented through vaccination, alcohol guidance, weight and hepatitis screening, according to health bodies? provenance
- Which screening exists here? provenance
Treatment
Treatment approaches.
Treatment
Treatment.
- Which management approaches do guidelines describe for this category, including transplantation for end-stage disease, in general terms? provenance
- Which support organisations exist? provenance
Learn Research and teaching.
Research
Research.
Research
Research.
- What are current research directions in liver disease? provenance
- How can patients participate in research? provenance
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can liver disease be taught within hepatology? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- XCT
- Domain
- XCT.STA
- Other names and narrower kinds
- childhood liver neoplasm, liver tumor, liver mesenchymal hamartoma, chicken hepatoma, liver neoplasm, hepatoma, liver lipoma, hepatic angiomyolipoma, liver leiomyoma, liver symptom, liver abscess, hepatic insufficiency
What it is Filled
Any disease affecting the liver, including viral hepatitis, fatty liver disease, alcohol-related disease, autoimmune and genetic conditions, cirrhosis and liver tumours such as hepatoma and childhood liver neoplasms; liver disease is often silent until advanced, is diagnosed by blood tests, imaging and biopsy, and is managed by treating causes and complications, with transplantation for end-stage disease.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain categories of liver disease in general terms, route symptoms to care, describe prevention, diagnosis and treatment with attribution, and support people living with liver disease without individual medical advice.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Liver involvement
- Diverse causes
- Often silent early
- Preventable in many cases
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Diagnose liver disease or recommend treatment for a person.
- Blame or stigmatize patients for alcohol use or infection.
- Promote unproven liver cleanses or cures.
- Disclose a person's hepatitis or transplant status without consent.
Only with a human decision
- Decisions about transplant listing or treatment.
May
- Explain kinds of liver disease and why it is often silent until late.
- Point people to testing and screening services where they are at risk.
Moral aspects Filled
- Stigma keeps people with liver disease from seeking care.
- Fair allocation of scarce donor livers is a serious moral question.
Who is affected
- Patients
- Transplant candidates
- Families
Owners Filled
Steward
The patient's clinicians; transplant bodies keep waiting lists.
Master systems
- Organ transplant waiting lists
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q2661443 - registry parent class
- Q2755530 - registry parent class
related
- hepatobiliary disease - category
- endocrine system disease - category
- liver cirrhosis - an end stage
- tumor - liver tumours
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.liver-disease
- Wikidata: Q929737 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q929737)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Affects the liver
- Viral, metabolic, alcohol-related, autoimmune, genetic or neoplastic
- Gallbladder disease affects an adjacent organ
- Often no visible signs early; later jaundice, swelling and fatigue.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain categories of liver disease
- route symptoms to care
- describe prevention and treatment
- support patients
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Late diagnosis
- Agents diagnosing or advising on treatment
- Stigma toward patients
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Hepatology clinical guidelines
- Hepatitis vaccination and screening programmes
- Alcohol policy and public health guidance
Context of use required Filled
- Diseases of the liver.
- viral hepatitis
- fatty liver disease
- alcohol-related liver disease
- autoimmune and genetic liver diseases
- liver tumours including hepatoma
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q929737: liver disease - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Liver disease - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should each liver disease be a separate entry?
- How should guidelines be linked?
- How should screening programmes be localised?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q929737/spec.json