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What is your approach to isolated alkaline phosphatase without other laboratory abnormalities?

What are your next diagnostic steps/tests?
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General Internal Medicine · University of California, San Francisco
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Assuming none of the other LFTs are abnormal, I would get a GGT.

If GGT is elevated --> likely a hepatobiliary issue. Would consider age, medical history, and risk factors. If persistently elevated, could consider RUQ US + MRCP. Conditions like PSC or PBC are frequently discovered due to asymptomati...

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