Incidental hypertransaminasemia in children: Potential delay in diagnosis of muscle disease

Many physicians believe that muscle disease leads either to sole elevation of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or a disproportionate increase in AST versus alanine aminotreansferase (ALT). We herein report 25 patients with muscle disease who presented erroneously to the hepatologist with an incident...

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Main Authors: Carolyne Ghobrial, Nehal Abdelhamid, Hanaa El-Karaksy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-12-01
Series:Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110663818300363