Dear Dr. Roach: I'm a 65-year-old male. On my recent semiannual checkup, my labs showed an AST level of 53 U/L and an ALT level of 62 U/L. I am concerned about nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. In ...

November 2, 2006 (Boston) — The currently accepted upper limit of normal for serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels is "artificially high," officials from the American Association for the Study ...

LFTs are a panel of blood tests that help detect liver injury, cholestasis or synthetic dysfunction. Learn what each marker ...

A new study shows a strong link between altered liver function and the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This correlates with recent data on the role played by diseases affecting the systemic ...

Wilson disease is a rare autosomal recessive condition that affects between 1/30,000 and 1/100,000 individuals. Kinnear Wilson first described the disorder as hepatolenticular degeneration in 1912. In ...