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#114 Alcohol-Associated Hepatitis: 5 Pearls Segment

Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast

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A Patient With Alcoholic Hepatitis Has a High AST and ALT Levels, and They Might Have a Stone in Their Common Bile Duct

A patient can have both alcoholic hepatitis and Tylenol toxicity, acute viral hepatitis, or a stone in their common bile duct. The most important thing that we should be assessing for your patient with alcoholic hepatitis has about a 20% chance of dying from their disease. There may be some other things to consider like autoimmune hepatitis, Wilson's, or if the patient's pregnant thinking about help or acute fatty liver of pregnancy. You got to watch out for that death cap.

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