LFTs are a panel of blood tests that help detect liver injury, cholestasis or synthetic dysfunction. Learn what each marker means, how patterns point to causes, and when to seek further care.

With lifestyle disorders and non-communicable diseases on the rise, many people routinely undergo Liver Function Tests (LFTs) ...

Indications : ALP test is ordered along with a group of other tests called 'liver profile' or 'liver panel'. It is also recommended when a person is suspected to have liver disease or bone disease. In ...

Comprehensive metabolic profile testing (panels) is widely used to screen individuals who present for routine evaluation, as well as those referred for elevated liver enzyme values. The standard ...

Liver disease these days have become a common occurrence. Alcohol intake, smoking, unhealthy eating habits, etc. all that have become an integral part of our lifestyle is usually responsible for the ...

One in six people over 75 are likely to have at least one abnormal liver test and those that have two or more are twice as likely to die from cancer and 17 times more likely to die from liver disease.

Patients were recruited from eight Birmingham and three Lambeth practices from November 2005 to November 2008. The cohort was formed from patients with at least one abnormal analyte (from a panel of ...

An intelligent liver function test platform (iLFT) successfully integrated into one Scottish primary care system reduced unnecessary specialist referrals over a 5-year period, and improved triage for ...

A 54 year old lady with hypothyroidism on levothyroxine, osteopenia on calcium and vitamin D, and dry eyes on artificial eye drops presents to her GP for a routine visit. One month ago, at a general ...

AS EARLY as 1926, evidence was presented by Resnik and Keefer 1 that dogs subjected to anoxia were more easily jaundiced by carbon tetrachloride than the control animals. Since then, several authors, ...