A Simplified Approach to
the Asymptomatic Patient with
MILD LIVER ENZYME ABNORMALITIES
THIS PROGRAM PROVIDES THE ANSWERS
TO THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT QUESTIONS:
- Does the Patient truly have Liver Disease?
- Does the Problem require Urgent Attention?
- Is the Liver Disease Hepatocellular (Hepatitis) or Cholestatic
in nature?
- What are the Common Causes of Liver Disease?
- What Clues Help to Establish Specific Diagnoses?
- What Additional Tests Should be Ordered?
- How to Explain the Liver Disease to the Patient?
- What Treatments Should be Initiated and When Should the
Patient be Referred to a Specialist?
Prepared by:
Gerald Y. Minuk M.D. F.R.C.P.(C)
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
Director, Liver Diseases Unit and
Liver Diseases Research Laboratory,
University of Manitoba, Health Sciences Centre,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Dr. Mauricio Lisker-Melman
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Hepatitis Laboratory
Universidad Nacional de Mexico
Instituto Nacional de la Nutricion
Salvador Zubiran
Mexico City, Mexico
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