Physician for Liver in Pune - Dr. Sheetal Mahajani Dhadphale

A hepatologist is a physician for liver who is expert in managing the disorders in the liver, the gallbladder and the pancreas. A patient has been referred to a hepatologist for a variety of reasons including drug overdose, gastrointestinal bleeding from portal hypertension, jaundice, ascites, enzyme defects or blood tests that indicates liver diseases.

Hepatology is the study of liver, gallbladder, biliary tree, and pancreas as well as the management of their disorders.

Diseases and complications related to alcohol and viral hepatitis are the main causes for seeking medical advice. A huge number of the population have been infected with the virus of hepatitis B at a given point of time in their life, approximately 350 million population is the persistent carriers of the virus. 80% of liver cancers can be attributed to either hepatitis C or hepatitis B virus. In terms of mortality, it is second only to smoking amongst known agents for causing cancer. With the more strict implementation of vaccination and screening before blood transfusion, lower infection rates are expected in the future. In many countries, however, the overall rate of alcohol consumption is increasing consequently, the number of people with cirrhosis and other related complications is commensurately increasing.

Dr. Sheetal Mahajani (Dhadphale), Pune’s best Hepatologist and physician for liver, has years of experience in managing health problem related to the liver.