Barb RE: STEVE

[Guest guest]

Thanks Barb,

I was about to post a “never mind, I

found the answer” – finally found a reference that answered my

question – but you confirmed it. Once you understand it, it’s kind

of a “duh-h-h” for someone who’s diagnosed with PSC, isn’t

it?

Steve

Rahn

L Tx

9/6 & 9/8 '85, Waiting for Re-Tx

The Senility

Prayer

God

grant me the senility to forget

the

people I never liked anyway,

the

good fortune to run into the ones that I do,

and

the eyesight to tell the difference "

STEVE

Hope

this might help…….

Alkaline

phosphatase is an enzyme, or more precisely a family of related enzymes,

produced in the bile ducts, intestine, kidney, placenta and bone. An elevation

in the level of serum alkaline phosphatase (actually enzyme activity is

measured in the clinical laboratory), especially in the setting of normal or

only modestly elevated ALT and AST activities, suggests disease of the bile

ducts. Serum alkaline phosphatase activity can be markedly elevated in bile

duct obstruction or in bile duct diseases such as primary biliary cirrhosis or

primary sclerosing cholangitis. Alkaline phosphatase is also produced in bone

and blood activity can also be increased in some bone disorders.

Barb in

Texas

Son,

Ken 28

UC

91 PSC 99

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From: Steve

my

quandary was why the Alk Phos is proportionally so much higher above the normal

range than the AST and ALT.