Did the Dr do any other blood work like Hepatitis A or B. Lipitor has been known to raise Liver enzymes. It is a side effect for some people. It cannot cause Hepatitis C.
You Dr needs to do more evaluating.
Bobby
Hepatitis means inflammation of the liver. Hepatitis can be caused by many things such as hepatitis A, B or C. It can also be caused by drugs or other toxins as well as alcohol. Your mother's hepatitis is caused by taking lipitor, a pill. It is not a virus and has nothing to do with blood to blood contact.
I hope this helps you to understand. Her liver will likely go back to normal as soon as the lipitor is out of her body.
Thank you for all your replies :) i just came back from the doctor he also diagnosed it as acute hepatitis and gave Hepa - Merz syrup and ran a few more tests.than he will make a proper treatment plan.But what could be the cause?, there has not been any sort of blood t blood contact that we know of.How far has the liver been damaged? is it serious?
once again thank u every1 :)
A definition may be helpful. 'Hepatitis' is smply an inflamation of the liver and can be cause by a few things. The more common causes that you will read on a forum like this is 'inflamation' caused by viruses like Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C virus. So, you can have 'hepatitis' withou a viral infection.
Hi,
There are no doctors here; only patients with HCV.
Lipitor can aggravate liver conditions, I believe, but won’t *cause* viral hepatitis. Do you know when your father contracted HCV? His liver enzymes were very high at 2246/1280; these numbers are more consistent with acute infection, implying that he might have been recently infected.
I hope that eliminating the Lipitor helps your father’s condition, but it won’t resolve his virus, unfortunately.
Has his doctor discussed HCV treatment with him yet? This would involve the use of interferon and ribavirin.
Good luck to you both—
Bill
is it possible that he gets infected with HCV by the use of lipitor - no.
Statin drugs like Lipitor can cause an elevation of liver enzymes in some patients and that may well me what's happening with your Father. If Lipitor is the cause then I would think that the amount of damage would be related to the length of time he was taking Lipitor. Generally patients who are prescribed a statin drug are tested a few weeks after starting to look for liver enzyme elevations so hopefully this was detected early.
Mike
Impossible lipitor can cause liver enzymes to increase. HCV is spread via blood to blood contact only ie. via transfusion, IV drug abuse and in the case of Viet Nam vets jet guns used for innoculation other factors may be involved I would suggest further liver tests to rule out other liver disorders. HCV can be diagnosed very easy via a blood test.