Routine blood tests are increasingly detecting elevated liver enzymes, which may signal liver stress or damage. While mild ...

Liver enzymes are proteins in your liver that speed up chemical reactions. If your liver is damaged, blood tests will show abnormally high levels of these enzymes circulating in your bloodstream.

Elevation of liver function tests (LFTs) has been noted in patients treated with sirolimus. However, in the United States [1] and global phase 3 trials, [2] elevation of LFTs, specifically of AST ...

Like most chronic liver diseases, in NAFLD there is a long period during which an individual patient remains essentially asymptomatic. In asymptomatic individuals, the diagnosis is often made when a ...

Rational testing: In the second of our series on how to rationalise testing in primary care, clinical scientist (biochemistry) Kade Flowers explains a logical approach to investigating a case of an ...