Test category · Laboratory

Liver & hepatobiliary

Enzymes, proteins and clotting factors that reflect liver-cell damage, bile flow and synthetic function, plus the antibody, viral, genetic and imaging tests of liver disease.

Tests with a page

Medical test

Biopsy

Medical test

Hepatitis B tests

Medical test

Liver function tests

Medical test

Prothrombin time and INR

Concepts covered by those pages

Prothrombin time and INR (liver synthetic function)Viral hepatitis testingLiver biopsyLiver function tests LFTs

Also in this category: catalogued concepts

Canonical test concepts of this category that do not yet have their own page. They are listed so that the taxonomy is complete and searchable; a page is written only when it can meet the quality standard.

  • Ammonia (NH3) Laboratory test
  • Total protein Laboratory test
  • Albumin · also: serum albumin Laboratory test
  • Total bilirubin Laboratory test
  • Direct bilirubin · also: conjugated bilirubin Laboratory test
  • Indirect bilirubin · also: unconjugated bilirubin Laboratory test
  • Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) · also: SGOT Laboratory test
  • Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) · also: SGPT Laboratory test
  • Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) Laboratory test
  • Gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) · also: gamma GT Laboratory test
  • Caeruloplasmin · also: ceruloplasmin Laboratory test
  • Bile acids · also: serum bile acids Laboratory test
  • Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) Laboratory test
  • Fibrosis score calculation · also: FIB-4, APRI Screening tool
  • Autoimmune liver antibodies · also: liver autoantibody screen Laboratory test
  • Alpha-1 antitrypsin (A1AT) · also: alpha-1 antitrypsin level and phenotype Laboratory test
  • Liver elastography · also: FibroScan, transient elastography Imaging
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