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Liver / Liver Failure
last updated: February 26, 2016
Hyperbilirubinemia
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-Etiology is likely multifactorial, with sepsis being the most likely cause, drug induced liver injury is another possibility but none of the recently documented medications has been clearly associated with similar pattern of liver injury.
-Please send hepatitis panel (HAV IgG, HBV sAg, HBV sAb, HBV cAb IgM, HCV Ab), ANA, anti-smooth muscle antibody, anti-mitochondrial antibody, iron panel with ferritin, ceruloplasmin, alpha 1 anti-trypsin to rule out other causes of chronic liver disease
Hepatitis B Surface Antibody (HBsAb or anti-HBs): The “surface antibody“ is formed in response to the hepatitis B virus. Your body can make this antibody if you have been vaccinated, or if you have recovered from a hepatitis B infection. If this test is positive, then your immune system has successfully developed a protective antibody against the hepatitis B virus. This will provide long-term protection against future hepatitis B infection. Someone who is surface antibody positive is not infected, and cannot pass the virus on to others.
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