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hepatology is a branch of medicine concerned with the study prevention diagnosis and management of diseases that affect the liver gallbladder biliary tree and pancreas
Answer. It is likely that you are being referred to a hepatologist (i.e., liver specialist) because your primary care physician feels that you have some form of liver problem or disease. This referral may have been made for a specific laboratory test with an abnormal result, or possibly due to something on your physical exam or in your medical history suggestive of liver disease.