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Liver Lesions Helppp!!!

My dad, Age: 51 has had shoulder pain for 3 months (does not pain while lifting things, only pains when hand is lifted above head level) , now so after doing a left shoulder MRI some lesions have been found and after a MRI done in the abdomen region there have been small lesions on liver also found. We visited a ortho they said there is nothing like abnormalities detected on side of shoulder that a ortho needs to look at, I'm not a medical person so I don't know what all I need to mention but I'll be attaching the reports so that it is better understood.

Please let me know your opinions will be a great help dead worried as of now.

u/No_Pattern2167 — 9 days ago

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Liver transplant complications

Hello guys a little history I've had a liver transplant for the past 15 years everything's been going okay until 10 years ago when my liver enzyme started getting elevated I had biopsies done in the past but it didn't show anything regarding why my enzymes are elevated and it didn't show my liver had any damage but I now have another little biopsy about a month ago and it's showing grade two fibrosis. But again it doesn't show any specific cars like chronic rejection acute rejection virus autoimmune disorder maybe some minor things. But I just wanted to post this to see if anybody's been in my situation.

Are you kind of wish it was rejection or chronic rejection cuz I know there's a treatment. But in this case there's no treatment because there's no known cause yet. I'm going to see my hepatologist in about 10 days hopefully he'll try something like immunosuppression or something else just to give it a shot.

Thank you in advance.

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u/Large_Exercise8580 — 10 days ago

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High ALT

All levels are normal except my ALT. Any thoughts?

u/AdAble7906 — 9 days ago

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3yo daughter cholestatic liver. Advice on soothing itching?

My daughter was born 1 month premature and stayed in the NICU for 11 days. We noticed elevated bilirubin levels, and since then we’ve been on a long journey of trying to diagnose.
Exome sequencing didn’t show any mutation.
Clinical test shows no symptoms of allagile (skeletal, eye, heart)
No autoimmune
She has an enlarged liver so a big belly
We monitor her monthly through blood tests and trimestrial ultrasound.
Despite no diagnosis or cirrhosis, doctors insist we need a transplant. I’m a match and in good health ever since i found out she’ll need my liver 2 years ago. I’m 32 now
We are really struggling with puritus. She itches a lot and scratches herself causing bleeding on her legs hands and belly. It was better before, now she wakes up at night from itching and scratches herself for up to an hour straight and it’s heartbreaking because i cant do anything to help her so i’m just helpless by her side.
She takes ursomed mainly everyday.
Doctors say she can’t have the transplant now because her liver is functional and stable despite very high enzyme results.
Bilirubin is very good and stable for over a year now
But GGT ALT AST alkaline are high in the hundreds
Any advice on helping with the itching? From someone living with a liver condition?
Please

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u/humanette1234 — 13 days ago

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Persistently raised ALT/AST/GGT

Hi all!

My liver enzymes, ALT, AST and GGT have been raised on blood tests consistently over the last year or so (and potentially longer. My other markers such as ALP, Albumin and Bilirubin suggest my liver is functioning well.

ALT around 100 currently and my GGT has raised from about 120 to 200 - the recent raise is likely supplement related (I added multiple to try help the liver and also lower my SHBG and increase free testosterone).

I’ve previously been tested for Hepatitis and my ultrasound came back clear, I’m lean and strength train 4 times per week with 10,000 steps daily. Currently I rarely drink alcohol, about once a month if that and not in excess.

Throughout this time I’ve been taking creatine, at a dose of up to 10g a day at times and Vitamin D as well as Whey Protein. Many other supplements as well but when I first found out about the raised enzymes, it was just those 3.

I’m awaiting referral from the NHS to Hepatology but this is a slow process. I’ve previously seen a Hepatologist but I’m not sure what tests he ran and a lot of the time with him was a case of let’s retest in 8 weeks and see if things have changed.

So my question is, does anyone have any advice regarding the supplements, (which I’ve now stopped) and any other thoughts on what could be causing this? Generally I don’t really have any symptoms other than a little bit of fatigue but I’ve always just assumed that’s due to having 2 kids and spending a lot of time working and training…

Thank you

u/Downtown_Jeweler_482 — 13 days ago