alkaline phosphotase

On 12 Aug 2005 06:20:48 -0700, "sirenityseekr" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

My sister's Doctor says her alkaline phosphotase count or level is way
up but cannot tell her why. She is very sick and getting worse. Any
ideas out here?

According to
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003497.htm

Higher-than-normal ALP levels may indicate:

* pregnancy
* healing bone fracture
* liver diseases
* biliary obstruction
* hepatitis
* bone disease
* Paget's disease
* osteoblastic bone cancers
* osteomalacia
* rickets
* skeletal disease
* anemia
* rickets
* leukemia
* thyroid gland infection
* hyperparathyroidism
* chronic alcohol ingestion

By the way, if the doctor doesn't know, it's time for her to find
another doctor, preferably one specialized in integrative medicine.

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sirenityseekr said:

My sister's Doctor says her alkaline phosphotase count or level is way
up but cannot tell her why. She is very sick and getting worse. Any
ideas out here?

What are her symptoms???

She needs to go and see a different doctor that will bother to take the
time to look it up!

I'd suggest an Oncologist and a Rheumatologist...

Cheers!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

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Just Cocky said:

On 12 Aug 2005 06:20:48 -0700, "sirenityseekr" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

My sister's Doctor says her alkaline phosphotase count or level is way
up but cannot tell her why. She is very sick and getting worse. Any
ideas out here?

According to
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003497.htm

Higher-than-normal ALP levels may indicate:

* pregnancy
* healing bone fracture
* liver diseases
* biliary obstruction
* hepatitis
* bone disease
* Paget's disease
* osteoblastic bone cancers
* osteomalacia
* rickets
* skeletal disease
* anemia
* rickets
* leukemia
* thyroid gland infection
* hyperparathyroidism
* chronic alcohol ingestion

By the way, if the doctor doesn't know, it's time for her to find
another doctor, preferably one specialized in integrative medicine.

I'm wondering what her other blood levels are!
If her other liver enzymes are not elevated and her thyroid levels are
normal, and if her CBC is normal, it'd probably point more towards bone
disease. Cancer or an autoimmune disorder of some kind.

She needs more testing and a BETTER doctor!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

sirenityseekr said:

My sister's Doctor says her alkaline phosphotase count or level is way
up but cannot tell her why. She is very sick and getting worse. Any
ideas out here?

COMMENT:

It's quite easy for the lab to tell whether the enzyme is coming from
liver or bone (it indicates swelling in the liver and repairing of
damage in the bone), and that's the first thing you look at.

If you can't get access to ALL of your sister's medical information, it
won't do you any good to present bits of it here. Heck, there's little
change it will do you any good to present ALL of it here.

SBH

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Quoted message said:

My sister's Doctor says her alkaline phosphotase count or level is way
up but cannot tell her why. She is very sick and getting worse. Any
ideas out here?

The degree of elevation is important and "way up" really doesn't make it
more clear.
Rather than speculating about what it is, it is better to work it up within
a clinical context.

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Robert said:

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Quoted message said:

My sister's Doctor says her alkaline phosphotase count or level is way
up but cannot tell her why. She is very sick and getting worse. Any
ideas out here?

The degree of elevation is important and "way up" really doesn't make it
more clear.
Rather than speculating about what it is, it is better to work it up within
a clinical context.

It can be fractionated to tell where it's coming from, and it MUST be
correlated with other lab tests! By itself, it does not tell a lot.

Please do keep us updated?
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson