Liver function tests

Why is Sharon is experiencing the following signs/symptoms? Please provide the specific pathophysiology. (4 points) •Jaundice: Jaundice occurs when your liver doesn’t metabolize bilirubin the way it’s supposed to. Accumulation of bilirubin or its conjugates in body tissues produces jaundice, which is characterized by high plasma bilirubin levels and deposition of yellow bilirubin pigments in the skin and other tissues. Jaundice caused during the hepatic phase can arise from abnormalities in the…

My Mother Living with my mother was like living in that ridiculous travel channel show where they eat bizarre food and act like it taste great by resisting the temptation to wrinkle their faces. Seemed to me like there was a certain cell in their brain that was missing, I think it’s called ‘’eat this and you might die’’, cell. My mother is tall and blond with a beautiful smile and her laugh can make anyone happy. She wasn’t always into eating healthy and staying young and beautiful…

patients in our hospital as well. Already showing indications of liver failure, the baby will not survive more than a year without a suitable donor organ. The baby’s parents are unable to help her with a transplant because both of them have milder versions of the condition. Dr. Doe and Dr. Row have suggested solutions to…

Diarrhea can be present with or without blood. Hepatic Schistosomiasis also occurs with S. Mansori and S. Japonicum. With this type of infection, we see an enlargement of the liver due to granuloma formation, collagen deposits, fibrosis, and high blood pressure in the veins that carries blood from the digestive organs to the liver. Portal hypertenison is due to the build up of the egg deposits in the portal…

30 µl measurements of 0.4, 0.8, 1.2, 1.6 and 20 mg/ml were added into their own sample of the 3 ml Bradford Assay, 30 µl of water was added to a separate sample of Bradford Assay and 30 µl of the dilute liver homogenate was added to its own sample of Bradford Assay and left for 3 minutes. The absorbance of the standards and the diluted homogenate samples were recorded to create a standard curve. From this equation, the protein concentration of my sample was determined. Class averages were also…

friends. One of her friends who sat in the front seat broke his leg and the other one in the backseat was fine. Everyone thought that my aunt was fine too. Unfortunately, it turned out that throughout her entire life, she had kidney problems, and only test results from the accident revealed this. She had only one functioning kidney, which it turned out she lost it in the accident. When they discovered her condition, they put her on a kidney transplant waiting list right away. Every member of the…

Calcium has several functions; such as blood clotting, muscle contractions, and the regulation of cellular metabolism. If the body 's blood calcium level fails below a critical point, then, the muscles…

immune system, along with the liver. These are primary systems within the body that are vital in order for each of us function and survive. Therefore if by some chance these if any of these systems/organ manage to fail, the likely outcome would be that a person becomes very ill. While technology has come a long way, as result people diagnoses’ are much more accurate, the medicine have drastically improved. This has manage to facilitate a ways to increase function of these systems even after an…

oesophagus, stomach, liver, gall bladder, spleen, pancreas,intestines, appendix and the rectum. All these organs interlink in order to carry out an environment of homeostasis. Homeostasis is a state of equilibrium inside the body as stated in the Journal of Nursing Standards (Hendry C 2012 page (46-50)).A further consideration is that of legal and ethical concerns within practice. The first part of the digestive system is the oral cavity and salivary glands. The function of the oral cavity is…

A sizzling pan is pictured as we hear, “This is drugs. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?” The egg is cracked and cooks over the heat. This commercial has been etched in my memory since childhood. The issue of legalizing drugs has been debated even longer. Gore Vidal wrote his article “Drugs: Case for Legalizing Marijuana” in The New York Times in 1970, a full 17 years before the aforementioned commercial hit the television airwaves. Vidal’s piece was ahead of its time, but still…