Elevated Liver Gamma-Glutamyl Transferase in Chronic Alcoholics
- 1 July 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Enzyme
- Vol. 25 (5) , 304-308
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000459271
Abstract
The activity of .gamma.-glutamyl transferase (.gamma.-GT) in the liver of 36 chronic alcoholics was twice as high as in the control group. The elevation was of the same order in cases with and without hepatic lesions. .gamma.-GT activity in the sera of alcoholic patients with chronic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis was significantly higher than in the remaining alcoholics. There was no correlation between the enzyme activities in the liver and in the serum of the patients examined. Consequently, the determination of liver .gamma.-GT activity bears no clinical significance in chronic alcoholics.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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