Fatty liver laboratory findings

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Overview

Most individuals are asymptomatic and are usually discovered incidentally because of abnormal liver function tests or hepatomegaly noted in unrelated medical condition. Elevated liver biochemistry is found in 50% of patients with simple steatosis.^[1] The serum ALT level usually is greater than the AST level in non-alcoholic variant and the opposite in alcoholic FLD.

Laboratory Findings

References

↑ Sleisenger, Marvin (2006). Sleisenger and Fordtran’s Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company. ISBN 1416002456.

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[1] Sleisenger, Marvin (2006). Sleisenger and Fordtran’s Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company. ISBN 1416002456.

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