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What to do if i had a routine blood test last week, my gp just called to say the liver (gamma reading is 500)?

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Dr. Kristel Hunt answered

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Alcohol and biliary: obstruction are most common causes of GGT to be this high. if you don't drink heavily, you shoudl have an imaging test to look at your biliary tree (ultrasound +/- MRCP). were all the other liver tests completely normal??

Answered 7/8/2014

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A member asked:

What to do if i had a routine blood test last week, my gp just called to say the liver (gamma reading is 500)?

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