Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures in Liver Disease: Adventures in Liverland

Overview

Join Dr. Sanjiv Chopra for this talk on laboratory tests and diagnostic procedures in liver disease!

Learning Objectives

• Understand the differential diagnosis of marked elevations in ALT and AST
• Enumerate the causes of markedly low ALT and AST elevations
• Understand the approach to an isolated elevation in serum Alkaline Phosphatase
• Learn when jaundice is a medical emergency
• Appreciate non-invasive markers of severity in patients with Chronic Liver Disease