Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology

Liver disease or hepatic disease is a type of damage to or disease of the liver. There are more than a hundred different kinds of liver disease, symptoms may include jaundice and weight loss.  A number of liver function tests (LFTs) are available to test the proper function of the liver. These tests for the presence of enzymes in blood that are normally most abundant in liver tissue, metabolites or products, serum proteins, serum albumin, serum globulin, alanine transaminase, aspartate transaminase, prothrombin time, partial thromboplastin time.