Serum concentration of selected trace elements and Gammaglutamyltransferase in alcoholic liver disease
| Autor: | Navid N Shah1 , Srinivas Ch2 , Bhagyalakshmi K |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Perspectives In Medical Research, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 13-16 (2018) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2348-1447 2348-229X |
| Popis: | Introduction: In South East Asia, India has turn out to be one of the major producers of alcohol. Hepatic manifestation of alcohol includes fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis and chronic hepatitis with hepatic fibrosis or cirrhosis. Objective: The main aim of our study was to determine the concentrations of some important physiological metal ions and liver enzyme activity in chronic alcoholics. Materials & Methods: This was a case control study. The study involved 30 male patients of Alcoholic liver diseases (ALDs) from outpatient and inpatients department of Prathima Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Karimnagar as cases and 30 age-matched healthy male relatives of patients with no chronic illness as control group. AST, ALT, bilirubin, gamma glutamyl transferase (GGT) and serum zinc, magnesium and copper of cases and controls were estimated compared. Results: In the current study we found that serum bilirubin levels, serum AST, ALT, GGT rose significantly in cases (P |
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