Recent advances in medical liver disease

This review surveys recent publications on medical liver diseases that might be of interest to diagnostic histopathologists. Topics highlighted include haemochromatosis, autoimmune hepatitis, sepsis in cirrhosis, haemophagocytic syndromes, IgG4-associated hepatobiliary diseases, anorexia nervosa, progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis, chemotherapy-induced liver injury, cystic fibrosis, obliterative portal venopathy and practical assessment of ductopenia in needle biopsies. Each section covers recent developments and highlights practical considerations in clinicopathological diagnosis.