Hepatitis C differential diagnosis
Overview
The differential diagnosis for HCV includes other etiologies of viral hepatitis, as well as diseases that cause hepatic or perihepatic injury.
Differential Diagnosis
The differential diagnosis of hepatitis C includes other etiologies of viral hepatitis and non-viral etiologies:
Viral Hepatitis Differential Diagnosis
Non-Viral Hepatitis Differential Diagnosis
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Alcoholic liver disease
- Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)
- Drug-induced liver injury (DILI)
- Liver abscess
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Cholelithasis
- Cholecystitis
- Cholangitis
- Chronic biliary disease
- Trauma
- Abdominal aneurysm
- Gastritis
- Gastroenteritis
- Peptic ulcer disease
- Bowel obstruction
- Pancreatitis
- Pancreatic cancer
- Malignant lymphoma
- Hereditary metabolic disorders (Wilson disease, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency)