For patients with chronic viral hepatitis, clinicians instinctively rely on liver enzyme measurements to estimate disease activity and assess need for liver biopsy or antiviral treatment. Although ...

Yes, it is possible to have a normal liver function test if you have cirrhosis, but this is rare. Cirrhosis is a condition that causes scarring and damage of the liver, which can prevent it from ...

Yes, it is possible for a person with cirrhosis to receive typical liver function test results, although this is rare. The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) notes that liver function ...

Explore how lab report reference ranges shape our understanding of health, emphasizing the complexity behind the concept of ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a new reader to your column; as such, I thought I would ask you a question that I have never seen asked or addressed in similar newspaper health columns. I am in my early 40s. I ...

Losing 10-15% of body weight can achieve type 2 diabetes remission in people with normal body mass index (BMI) show findings from the Reversal of Type 2 Diabetes Upon Normalisation of Energy intake in ...

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Research from the Medical University of South Carolina's Digestive Disease Research Core Center suggests that physicians can fail to diagnose alcoholic cirrhosis if they rely solely on laboratory test ...