Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

THE USE AND INTERPRETATION OF TESTS FOR LIVER FUNCTION

THE USE AND INTERPRETATION OF TESTS FOR LIVER FUNCTION For twenty years or more clinicians, physiologists and clinical pathologists have attempted to devise procedures or tests that would indicate the functional capacity of the liver, in order to determine the presence and degree of disease of the liver and to obtain information with regard to prognosis. The careful physiologic studies that have been made following total and partial hepatectomy have served as a guide to the solution of this problem and have stimulated interest in it. Meanwhile, physiologists repeatedly have warned that no one function could be depended on to indicate the general status of the whole organ and that the reserve function of the liver was so great that functional abnormalities could be expected to appear only when most of it had been destroyed. In presenting the following report, it is our intention to consider the utility and general significance of the tests in common use and to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

THE USE AND INTERPRETATION OF TESTS FOR LIVER FUNCTION

JAMA , Volume 110 (3) – Jan 15, 1938

Loading next page...
 
/lp/american-medical-association/the-use-and-interpretation-of-tests-for-liver-function-lLAmEnlG13

References (24)

Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1938 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
ISSN
0098-7484
eISSN
1538-3598
DOI
10.1001/jama.1938.02790030001001
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

For twenty years or more clinicians, physiologists and clinical pathologists have attempted to devise procedures or tests that would indicate the functional capacity of the liver, in order to determine the presence and degree of disease of the liver and to obtain information with regard to prognosis. The careful physiologic studies that have been made following total and partial hepatectomy have served as a guide to the solution of this problem and have stimulated interest in it. Meanwhile, physiologists repeatedly have warned that no one function could be depended on to indicate the general status of the whole organ and that the reserve function of the liver was so great that functional abnormalities could be expected to appear only when most of it had been destroyed. In presenting the following report, it is our intention to consider the utility and general significance of the tests in common use and to

Journal

JAMAAmerican Medical Association

Published: Jan 15, 1938

There are no references for this article.