Jay N. Yepuri, MD, MS, FACG, is a board-certified gastroenterologist and member of the Digestive Health Associates of Texas Board of Directors and Executive Committee. A liver function test checks how ...

Liver Function Tests or LFT is a guide that provides insights about your liver health which for most part the the result are hard to read and may look like a different language. While your physician ...

If you’re rushed to the hospital and into emergency surgery, it would be helpful if the anesthesiology team could predict whether your body will react in the way they expect. In the majority of cases, ...

The FDA has granted premarket approval to HepQuant’s liver diagnostic test for the treatment of adults with Child-Pugh Class ...

A person can have hepatitis C with no symptoms. Liver enzyme tests can help detect and diagnose a hepatitis C infection by showing liver damage and inflammation. Hepatitis C is a contagious liver ...

An intelligent liver function test platform (iLFT) successfully integrated into one Scottish primary care system reduced unnecessary specialist referrals over a 5-year period, and improved triage for ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have developed a new, easy-to-use blood test score that can help identify when fatty liver disease is being driven by excessive ...

Most articles focus on liver disease, but doctors say your body also sends encouraging signals when your liver is functioning well. Here are the subtle signs that may indicate this vital organ is ...

Using human induced pluripotent stem cells, researchers have built a miniature 3D liver model that replicates the critical interaction between hepatocytes and stellate cells. As chronic liver disease ...

We selected 127 patients who underwent spectral CT abdominal contrast-enhanced scans in our department from October 2023 to January 2025 and were clinically and pathologically diagnosed with cirrhosis ...