Two approaches have generally been used to assessing liver function: one is to measure the products of liver synthesis, the other is to monitor hepatic clearance function. The exogenous dyes that can be used to study liver function are sulphobromophthalein (BSF) and indocyanine green (ICG). One valuable way to measure hepatic function is to use non-toxic substances (stains, sugar, drugs) that a...

Uric acid was used as a test for liver disease before the advent of enzymology. Three old studies criticised uric acid as a test of liver function. Uric acid, as an end-product of purine metabolism in the liver, deserved re-evaluation as a liver function test. Serum totalbile acids are widely accepted as the most reliable liver function test. This study compared the ability of serum uric acid c...

the liver is an organ at risk (oar) in radiotherapy of thoracic and abdominal tumors such as gastric, distal esophagus, lower lung and breast, bile duct, pancreas and whole abdomen. in this study the alteration in liver functional tests (lft) of these patients during radiotherapy was investigated. to that end, the level of serum aspartate aminotransferase (ast), alanine aminotransferase (alt), ...

The hepatitis-B virus (HBV) is one of the most common chronic pathogens in the world. More than 2 billions of world population have been exposed to this virus and 350 millions of them (5% of world population) are chronic carriers of HBV. One of the most common routes of transmission of this virus is blood products and transfusion . For this reason blood transfusion organization controls all of ...