 [ Symptoms ] my father has been diagnosed with brain tumor – requires surgery medication or other treatment [ Disease ] people with chronic liver disease can experience a severe if not life threatening course of disease when infected with acute hepatitis a or b and some people who have had a liver transplant are at risk for developing hepatitis b which could lead to dysfunction of the transplanted liver fulminant hepatitis andor cirrhosis it is of utmost importance that all people with chronic liver disease receive the immunizations for hepatitis a and b