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Is it possible to have mildly elevated liver enzymes and some small spots on your liver during an ultrasound and have the two findings be totally unrelated? could you have non alcoholic fatty liver disease and cysts or something similar?

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Yes.: This is in fact common. Both liver cysts and liver enzyme abnormalities are very common. Therefore the overlap of those two is also common. It would be unlikely that a cyst alone would be responsible for liver enzyme elevations.

Dr Seibert and another doctor agreed

Answered 5/3/2018

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