BIOL 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Biliary Tract, Urobilinogen, Bilirubin
8 May 2020
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Suggests that disorder is not chronic disorder, because enzymes may have been elevated secondary to cholestasis : conjugated and uncongjugated bilirubin are normal can be an extreme case of focal biliary obstruction. But, more likely,this highlights that lp can originate from sites other than liver (i. e. bones in teen years, when there is rapid bone growth, placenta particularly elevated in third trimester of pregnancy). So, there are a number of isoforms of lp, and one of the limitations is that lp test lacks total specifity for liver: ggt is a marker of alcohol abuse. Ggt is elevated two fold and all other routine tests are normal: doctor does medication history check- patient agrees to abstain from alcohol. Ggt so either patient is not abstaining from alcohol or. Alcoholism the process of the alcohol ingestion has led to irreversible liver injury. Alcohol can poison liver cells around the hepatic vein that drains the blood.
