Urinary sodium as a liver function test

Thymol Turbidity as a Liver Function Test

A new liver function turbidity test.

The various liver flocculation tests proposed in recent years by several investigators cannot be considered as specific, hence clinicians tend to use many of them simultaneously. Obviously, the simplicity and the rapidity with which any one of these tests can be performed are essential advantages. The following new liver function turbidity test is simple and rapid, and is more sensitive than th...

Abnormality on Liver Function Test

Children with abnormal liver function can often be seen in outpatient clinics or inpatients wards. Most of them have respiratory disease, or gastroenteritis by virus infection, accompanying fever. Occasionally, hepatitis by the viruses causing systemic infection may occur, and screening tests are required. In patients with jaundice, the tests for differential diagnosis and appropriate treatment...

The double glucagon test, a new liver function test.

A double glucagon test was performed in 100 patients and seventeen control subjects. Two intravenous doses of glucagon (1 mg) were administered at a 1-hr interval. Glucose was determined before the first injection and 20, 25 and 30 min after both doses, and the increases after each successive dose were added up. In normal persons, the total increase in glycaemia was higher in the second than in...

Sodium valproate and routine liver function tests.