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What liver #are they looking at in blood work to see if i can take a medicine to clear up toenails? what shud it be? the medicine starts with an a

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AST/ALT: Those are liver enzymes. The normal values and reference ranges are listed on the lab results. I don't recall the exact numbers off hand.

Answered 11/9/2013

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