RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Fifteen-minute consultation: The child with an incidental finding of elevated aminotransferases
JF Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition
JO Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 228
OP 230
DO 10.1136/archdischild-2016-311935
VO 103
IS 5
A1 Robert Hegarty
A1 Anil Dhawan
YR 2018
UL http://ep.bmj.com/content/103/5/228.abstract
AB It is not unusual to encounter abnormal liver enzyme levels on routine blood tests. When the abnormal elevation in aminotransferases persist, they require prompt and appropriate investigations as liver diseases in children are often insidious in onset and clinically silent. This article aims to provide (1) an explanation to the aetiologies of elevated aminotransferases; (2) an investigational approach to these children and (3) an insight into further investigations performed at a liver centre.