How to accurately check alcoholic liver disease

Update Date: 2021-11-22 Source: Network

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As the early symptoms of alcoholic liver disease is not very obvious, it is easy to cause the neglect of patients, leading to serious harm. Therefore, when the disease cannot be confirmed, the corresponding examination items should be carried out. For alcoholic liver disease, the examination items should be analyzed and judged.

How to accurately check alcoholic liver disease

In general, the number of abnormal red blood cells (MCV) and the number of red blood cells (WBC) increased.

Second, imaging examination, alcoholic liver examination must be B-mode ultrasound and CT examination of the liver, which helps to find alcoholic liver. The diagnosis depends on liver biopsy. As the liver damage is diffuse, non location biopsy is feasible.

The third, biochemical examination, biochemical examination is an important aspect of alcoholic liver examination, general alcoholic liver patients will appear serum bilirubin increased, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) activity significantly increased, and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) activity only slightly increased or normal. The sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive value of AST: ALT ratio were 68%, 91% and 82% respectively when the ratio was more than 2. The activities of alkaline phosphatase and r-glutamyltranspeptidase (r-GT) increased. R-GT is a sensitive but nonspecific marker. Combined detection of MCV, R-G and alkaline phosphatase is an ideal laboratory index for the diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease.

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Nowadays, with the improvement of people's living standards, drinking is inevitable in social occasions for a long time, which leads to the occurrence of alcoholic liver disease. The related examination items of alcoholic liver disease can effectively help to find the existence of the disease and understand the development of the disease. However, if patients with alcoholic liver disease do not receive timely treatment, or many patients feel that alcoholic liver disease does not need treatment at all, it will lead to serious consequences. I hope that enough attention can be paid to treat the disease positively.