• Card 29 / 34: Which of the following most likely explains the patients liver function tests?A 60 year old woman has pruritus (itchiness). Her alkaline phosphatase is 450. Total bilirubin, ALT, and AST are normal.
    01.) Bile duct obstruction
    02.) Acute alcoholic hepatitis
    03.) Acute acetaminophen overdose
    04.) Acute hepatitis A
    05.) Acute hepatitis B
    06.) Acute hepatitis C
    07.) Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency
    08.) Primary biliary cirrhosis
    09.) Hemochromatosis
    10.) Wilson’s disease
    11.) Acute hepatitis E
    12.) Autoimmune hepatitis

    Answer:
    08.) Primary biliary cirrhosis

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Explanation:

Typical story for primary biliary cirrhosis. Patients with bile duct obstruction will often have elevations in the Total bilirubin, ALT, and AST.

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Attribution:  Laurence Scott Bailen, Tamsin Knox, Paul Abourjaily, Fredric D. Gordon,Marshall Kaplan,Andrew G. Plaut. PPY 222 Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology, Spring 2007. (Tufts University OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/47 (Accessed 3 May, 2014). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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