The review of recent data is presented in the article. it concerns pathogenesis, course, progressing of pathologic process in liver, methods of treatment of patients with alcoholic liver disease
A.A. Antonyan, E.I. Kashkina, R.V. Lyakisheva New data on alcoholic liver disease // Saratov Journal of Medical Scientific Research, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2010, pp. 317-322

Alcoholic liver disease prognosis has not been thoroughly developed yet. The possibility of morphologic prognosis has been limited due to disadvantages of liver biopsy. Insignificant amount of studies is devoted to laboratory methods. prognosis value of serum markers of liver fibrosis at the last cirrhotic stages is widely considered in the medical literature. at the same time the results of treatment are determined by making a diagnosis
S.P. Sernov, V.B. Lifshitz, Yu.I. Skvortsov, V.G. Subbotina, A.G. Martynova, L.S. Sulkovskaya, V.I. Shulgin, L.A. Suchilina Important issues of alcoholic liver disease prognosis // Saratov Journal of Medical Scientific Research, Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2010, pp. 94-100

One of the main factors of chronic liver disease is alcohol. The level of alcoholic liver disease incidence and cirrhosis mortality has increased considerably in the recent years in many countries. The risk of development and disease progression are determined by the effect of endogenous and exogenous factors: "drinking mode", female gender, heredity and genetic predisposition, obesity, concomitant viral hepatitis
С.П. Сернов, В.Б. Лифшиц, В.Т. Субботина, Н.Ю. Папшицкая, А.Г. Мартынова, К.Г. Аредаков В.И. Шульгин Epidemiology Of Alcoholic Liver Disease // Saratov Journal of Medical Scientific Research, Vol. 5, Issue 4, 2009, pp. 564-568