Researchers have recently created a blood test that can detect liver disease years before symptoms ever develop, helping pave the way for the diagnosis of diseases such as cirrhosis and liver cancer ...

Patients were recruited from eight Birmingham and three Lambeth practices from November 2005 to November 2008. The cohort was formed from patients with at least one abnormal analyte (from a panel of ...

Jay N. Yepuri, MD, MS, FACG, is a board-certified gastroenterologist and member of the Digestive Health Associates of Texas Board of Directors and Executive Committee. A liver function test checks how ...

Researchers have developed a tool that uses blood biomarkers to help determine when steatotic liver disease is caused by ...

Cirrhosis creates scars that damage your liver. This damage can prevent this vital organ from doing important jobs like helping with digestion and removing toxins from your body. The sooner your ...

As the body’s chemical clearinghouse, the liver is prone to drug-induced injury. Detecting liver damage, though, is complicated because the standard protein biomarkers of liver damage are expressed ...

A new combined test panel called Lipid Profile ALT (Cholestech Corp., Hayward, Calif.) has received an FDA waiver from Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) standards. The panel, designed ...

Expert clinicians remark on the current role of the liver biopsy in the diagnosis of advanced fibrosis due to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and highlight considerations for utilizing newer, noninvasive ...

A comprehensive metabolic panel (CMP) is a set of tests that a doctor may order to find out more about a person’s overall health. These are routine tests that can help evaluate how well the body is ...