Undetectable serum alkaline phosphatase activity in a patient with fulminant hepatic failure and hemolytic anemia

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 382-385

  Oosthuizen, Nicholette M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; COPPER; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PENICILLAMINE;

ADULT; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FULMINANT HEPATIC FAILURE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; MALAISE; NAUSEA; SYMPTOM; VOMITING; WILSON DISEASE;

ADULT; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; CHELATING AGENTS; COPPER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; PENICILLAMINE; PLASMAPHERESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952224461     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2010.152447     Document Type: Article

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