Screening for Liver Disease:The work-up and diagnosis of acute and chronic liver disease 2025
Screening for Liver Disease:The work-up and diagnosis of acute and chronic liver disease - 2025
Who should be tested for liver disease?
- Symptom based
- Risk based
- Referral due to elevated liver tests on blood tests
- Referral due to abnormal liver imaging
Consider Liver Disease Testing :
- All patients with metabolic syndrome
- Test for MASH and hemochromatosis
- Patients with risk history, high risk sex or drug use, HCV HBV HIV
- Immigrant populations; HBV HCV
- Birth cohort: HCV
- All adults: HCV HBV
- Repeat HCV testing in high risk individuals
- Repeat HBV testing
- risk based annually after testing all adults
- Children born to HBV+ mothers
- Psychiatric disorders: Wilson Disease
- Lung disease: Alpha-1
- Autoimmune disease? Do AIH work up
Mandatory Liver Disease Testing :
- Jaundiced patient
- Large liver on physical exam
- Signs of cirrhosis/CLD on PE
- Abnormal liver imaging
- History or current of abnormal liver tests
- RUQ pain
- Family history of liver disease