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

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Is That Something That You Should Be Doing?

In this case here, i have a person who has an a l t and an a s t that is severalfold the upper limit of normal an alkaline phosphotes. And so you don't really need like a hard algarithm to tell you that this is a so called hipatacellular injury. We sometimes use this thing called the r score or the r index,. If it's greater than five, we'uld call that hepata cellular. If it's less than two, we'd call it colostatic. In this case, you could see that youre, you're clearly dealing with something that’s greater than five hepatACEllular injury.

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