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#293 The Best of Liver Tests with Dr. Elliot Tapper

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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What's Known as Liver Function Test?

Liver function test is triggering, i imagine transmn a, we'll just send you into collapses. You have te albumen, which tells you about liver function on the order of two weeks given its half life. Another fun test is the kaffine clearance test, where you give somebody the equivalent of star buk and then measure the half life of caffine. These ar validated mtr measures of liver function, which actually correlate with things like mortality. The most common thing that gives away someone who has normal liver enzymes in your clinic is that she had this urinary tract infection. So essentially what i'm doing is grilling people about the things that they have ingested or anything that

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