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What can happen if your liver enzymes are too high?
If liver damage is the cause of elevated liver enzymes, you may have symptoms such as: Abdominal (stomach) pain. Dark urine (pee). Fatigue (feeling tired).
Are high liver enzymes always bad?
Elevated liver enzymes are a warning sign of possible liver damage, irritation or inflammation. Elevated liver enzymes are usually due to common conditions that are easily treated or resolve on their own. Rarely, they may be due to a serious or even life-threatening disease.
What does an ultrasound show for liver?
Abdominal Ultrasound, which uses sound waves to produce pictures to evaluate the size and shape of the liver, as well as blood flow through the liver. On ultrasound images, steatotic livers look brighter than normal livers, and cirrhotic livers (advanced fibrosis) look lumpy and shrunken.
What medicines can cause elevated liver enzymes?
Anti-epileptic drugs such as carbamazepine (Seize article) and tuberculosis medicines such as Rifampin (Rifadin) (Eur Resp J) are commonly associated with changes in liver enzyme levels and liver function. Other common prescription drugs that can also increase liver enzyme levels include antidepressants and many antiviral drugs (NEJM).
What could be causing elevated liver enzyme levels?
There are many other causes of the abnormally elevated blood liver enzyme levels in addition to those mentioned above. Some of these conditions include: Wild mushroom poisoning. Wilson’s disease, due to excess buildup of copper in the liver. Metastatic cancer to the liver ( cancer spread from another organ to the liver).
What are the reasons for my elevated liver enzymes?
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) Considered the most common reason for a person to develop elevated liver enzymes as found on a blood test.
What are the side effects of elevated liver enzymes?
With higher liver enzyme levels, you may be overly tired, or very weak (fatigued). It may be hard for you to do any kind of your normal activities. You may bleed easier if your blood clotting factors are affected by the liver damage (it may take your blood longer to form a blood clot).