Hy’s law: When liver enzyme elevation may be *extremely* serious

We look at the results of our patients’ hepatic (liver) function tests all the time. And, we see elevations of liver enzymes — aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) — in some patients. Fortunately, these elevations of liver enzymes usually don’t indicate a life-threatening situation. The levels of AST and ALT are not, by…