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The liver may be injured during the course of many diseases that are systemic or predominantly involve other organs. In this setting, the mechanisms of liver injury can be broadly classified as vascular, toxic, immune, and hormonal, as summarized in Fig. 1.
Bright's disease. Bright's disease is a historical classification of kidney diseases that would be described in modern medicine as acute or chronic nephritis. It was characterized by edema, the presence of albumin in the urine and was frequently accompanied by high blood pressure (hypertension) and evidence of heart disease.