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Found primarily in liver, heart, kidney, pancreas, and muscles. Elevated with significant tissue damage

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AST (7-40)

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Increased levels primarily in hepatocellular necrosis, liver damage, myocardial infarction, and to a lesser extent kidney infection.

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ALT (5-36)

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Increases are usually found in cellular death and/or leakage from cell. Can confirm myocardial or pulmonary infarction. By itself usually means hemolysis.

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LDH (5-150)

4
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Increases in biliary obstruction. Also present in blastic bone disease, pregnancy, or skeletal growth.

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Alkaline phosphatase (30-120)

5
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May be elevated in liver disease, particularly alcohol abuse, occult bile duct obstruction, cholangitis, and drug abuse.

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Gama-Glutamyl Transpeptidase (GGT) (0-30)

6
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Elevated in liver disease, hemolytic anemia, and toxic effects to some drugs

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total bilibrubin (.2-1.5)

7
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unconjugated bilirubin is transported with

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ligandin or z protein

8
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unconjugated bilirubin is conjugated to

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glucouronic acid

9
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conjugated bilirubin in the SI is converted to urobilinogen by

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bacterial proteases

10
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90% of urobilinogen is excreted in

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feces

11
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major cause of prehepatic jaundice

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RBC hemolysis

12
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major cause of hepatic jaundice

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Viral hep, drugs, cirrhosis, and tumors

13
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major cause of posthepatic jaundice

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Gallstones or cancer of bile ducts

14
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weakness, dark urine, anemia, icterus, and splenomegaly

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hemolytic jaundice

15
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  • Increased UB without bilirubinuria
  • increased fecal and urine urobilinogen
  • hemolytic anemia
  • hemoglobinuria
  • increased reticulocytes
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hemolytic jaundice

16
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hemoglobinuria seen in

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acute intravascular hemolysis

17
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urinary changes in hemolytic jaundice

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absent bilirubin and increased/normal urobilinogen

18
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fecal changes in hemolytic jaundice

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normal stercobilinogen

19
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due to intra/extra hepatic obstruction of bile ducts

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obstructive jaundice

20
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Hepatitis, PBC, and drugs can cause

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intrahepatic jaundice

21
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Stones, stricture, inflammation, and tumors can cause

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extra hepatic biliary obstruction

22
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examples of impaire/absent hepatic conjugation of bilirubin leading to hepatic jaundice

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  • decreased GT activity (Gilberts) can cause

- hereditary absence/def of UDPGT (Grigler-Najjar synd)

23
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hereditary absence/def of UDPGT

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Grigler-Najjar synd

24
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decreased GT activity

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Gilberts

25
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familial or hereditary disorders causing hepatic jaundice

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  • Dubin-Johnson synd

- rotor synd

26
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acquired disorders that cause hepatic jaundice

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  • hepatocellular necrosis

- intrahepatic cholestasis

27
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intrahepatic-liver cell damage/blockage of bile canaliculi will cause

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obstructive jaundice

28
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examples of intrahepatic-liver cell damage/blockage of bile canaliculi

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  • drugs/toxins
  • Dubin-Johnson synd
  • E or preg
  • hep/virus
  • tumors
  • intrahepatic biliary hypo
  • primary biliary cirrhosis
29
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weakness, low appetite, hepatomegaly, palmar erythema, spider angioma

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symptoms of hepatic jaundice

30
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  • normal liver function
  • elevated CB and UCB
  • elevated bilirubinuria
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lab findings of hepatic juandice

31
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examples of extrahepatic/obstructive bile ducts causing obstructive jaundice

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  • tumor compression/obstruction
  • choledochal cyst
  • extrahepatic biliary atresia
  • intraluminal stones
  • stenosis/postop
32
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  • pain
  • fever from ascending cholangitis
  • palpabe/tender gallbladder
  • enlarged/smooth liver
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cholestasis

33
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  • increased serum bilirubin, bilirubinuria, ALP, and cholesterol
  • decreased or absent feceal urobilinogen
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obstructive jaundice

34
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increased bilirubin and reduced/absent urobilinogen

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urinary changes from extrahepatic obsructive jaundice

35
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reduced/absent faecal

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faecal changes from extrahepatic obsructive jaundice

36
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proportion of conj bilirubin to the total raised bilirubin that is more suggestive of hepatic than posthepatic jaundice

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20-40% of total

37
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proportion of conj bilirubin to the total raised bilirubin that is more suggestive of posthepatic than hepatic jaundice

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over 50% of total

38
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proportion of conj bilirubin to the total raised bilirubin that is more suggestive of juandice secondary to haemolysis or constitutional (Gilberts, Crigler-Najjar)

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less than 20%