Potential Diagnosis
Increased In:
Related to release of ALT from damaged liver, kidney, heart, pancreas, red blood cells, or skeletal muscle cells.
- Acute pancreatitis
- AIDS (related to hepatitis B co-infection)
- Biliary tract obstruction
- Burns (severe)
- Chronic alcohol abuse
- Cirrhosis
- Fatty liver
- Hepatic carcinoma
- Hepatitis
- Infectious mononucleosis
- Muscle injury from intramuscular injections, trauma, infection, and seizures (recent)
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myocardial infarction
- Myositis
- Pancreatitis
- Pre-eclampsia
- Shock (severe)
Decreased In:
- Pyridoxal phosphate deficiency (related to a deficiency of pyridoxal phosphate that results in decreased production of ALT)
Alanine Aminotransferase has been found in Davis's Lab & Diagnostic Tests
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