Doctors can often diagnose liver cancer with a CT scan and blood tests. A biopsy may be needed if imaging results are inconclusive. Liver cancer is often diagnosed after someone develops symptoms such ...

No single blood test can diagnose liver cancer, but liver cancer blood tests can detect signs of liver dysfunction. Depending on a person’s signs and symptoms, a doctor may recommend further testing, ...

Doctors can diagnose fatty liver disease, now called metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), using blood tests that measure serum liver enzyme levels. Elevated enzyme levels ...

An intelligent liver function test platform (iLFT) successfully integrated into one Scottish primary care system reduced unnecessary specialist referrals over a 5-year period, and improved triage for ...

THE liver plays an important role in the metabolism of carbohydrates. Clinical investigators have frequently reported observations of disturbed carbohydrate metabolism in the presence of liver disease ...

Given just how much lifestyle disorders or non-communicable diseases are on the rise these days, it is quite likely that you would have taken a liver function test (LFT) and then consulted the doctor ...

IT HAS been believed for decades that chronic alcoholism damages the hepatic parenchyma and may finally lead to cirrhosis of the liver. Available statistics show alcoholism to be an etiologic factor ...

For the first time, researchers have successfully connected a functioning liver from a genetically modified pig to a human body.* In a step toward testing the procedure in living people, a team at the ...