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Crohn's Disease and High Liver Count
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Crohn's Disease and High Liver Count
by RHGal, Jun 21, 2002 12:00AM
My mother, 47, has lived with Crohn's disease for 20 years now. She has also undergone six bowel resections over the years, and last December was operated on to remove a hernia and a cyst (in the same spot!) from her small intestine. She just received the results of routine blood work from her specialist, who said that the results were normal - except for a slightly elevated liver count. The doctor doesn't seem to think that there is cause for concern, but with all her other health problems my mother would like to been 100% certain. What does a high liver count mean, and is there something that we should be doing about it?
Thank you!
Thank you!
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I have Crohn's disease (26 yrs), lots of surgeries, along with pulmonary fibrosis and fibromyalgia, etc, etc.... I know how distressing it is to have one thing after another go wrong. If she isn't taking methotrexate and she isn't having any symptoms, I'd say just follow up in a month or so.
Thanks for the advice. It's the first we have heard of the elevated liver count, so I'm assuming (and hoping) that it was an isolated incident. I don't believe she's taking methotrexate, but she has been having great difficulty sleeping. I plan on making sure this is monitored - don't need any other problems!!
Thanks again!
The doctor has had 3 different tests run on her in the last 3 weeks and so far hasn't found anything causing the elevation: cat scan of abdomen; ultrasound of gall bladder, liver, and pancreas; some radioactive test of her abdomen area.
Any ideas?