#293 The Best of Liver Tests with Dr. Elliot Tapper

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science, Higher Education, Education

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🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Take a walk through Liver Land with Dr. Elliot Tapper (@ebtapper on Twitter) as we stroll through the best of liver tests. Once differentiating a hepatocellular versus cholestatic injury picture, Dr. Tapper shares some targeted labs to help with etiology, as well as what to do with those pesky isolated lab abnormalities. On top of that, we review common causes of severe acute liver disease and issues in pregnancy. Join us, and you’ll be writing more accurate notes as Dr. Tapper schools us on what “liver function tests” really mean!

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Credits

Written and Produced by: Elena Gibson MD
Cover Art and Infographic: Kate Grant MD; Elena Gibson MD
Hosts: Stuart Brigham MD; Matthew Watto MD, FACP; Paul Williams MD, FACP
Editor: Emi Okamoto MD (written materials); Clair Morgan of nodderly.com
Guest: Elliot Tapper MD

Sponsor: BetterHelp betterhelp.com/curb

Sponsor: Panacea Financial panaceafinancial.com

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Show Segments

Intro, disclaimer, guest bio
Guest one-liner
Definitions of liver enzymes, liver function tests
Patterns of acute liver injury
Drug-induced liver injury
Isolated alkaline phosphatase elevation
Isolated total bilirubin elevation
Livery Injury During Pregnancy
Acute liver failure
Outro

Transcript

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0:18.6	Pretty much we aren't responsible if you screw up, you should always be your own homework
0:20.6	and let's know.
0:32.0	Paul, we have done it again.
0:35.3	We sure did not.
0:36.4	We sure did.
0:37.4	I'm Dr. Matthew Wato here with my good friend Dr. Paul Nelson Williams and a producer who
0:41.9	we will introduce in a second tonight we talked about liver tests.
0:46.6	We're not allowed to call them liver function tests, but we had a great guest Dr. Elliott
0:52.2	Tapper who you may know from liver Twitter.
0:55.8	And on the show we just went through all sorts of various cases and flavors of liver test
1:01.4	abnormalities.
1:02.4	Paul, before you introduce our super producer, can you tell the audience what is it that
1:06.9	we generally do on this podcast?
1:09.8	So glad you asked Matt.
1:10.8	Generally we are the internal medicine podcast.
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