Liver Function

Question 1

What type of jaundice is due to hemolysis

Answer 1

Prehepatic

Question 2

Which type of jaundice is due to hepatocellular dysfunction caused by viruses or toxins

Answer 2

Hepatic

Question 3

Which type of jaundice is due to bile duct obstruction

Answer 3

Postherpetic

Question 4

What is formed in the colon by bacteria, which metabolizes bile.

Answer 4

Urobilinogen

Question 5

What is water insoluble, a breakdown product of hemoglobin, and is in the plasma bound to albumin that is not filtered in the kidneys

Answer 5

Unconjugated bilirubin or indirect

Question 6

What is water soluble and is excreted into the bile duct system, then into the gallbladder as bile. And can be excreted in the kidneys

Answer 6

Conjugated bilirubin or direct

Question 7

What are the 3 liver disease enzymes

Answer 7

Aspartate aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase, alanine aminotransferase

Question 8

Alcohol induced the synthesis of

Answer 8

GGT

Question 9

The best liver enzyme to evaluate liver function

Answer 9

ALT

Question 10

The tissue that has the highest activity of both alt and AST relative to serum

Answer 10

Liver

Question 11

The I isoenzyme ld4 and ld5 are elevated in

Answer 11

Liver disease

Question 12

Which enzyme is most useful in establishing the hepatic origin of an elevated serum alkaline phosphatase

Answer 12

y-glutamyltranspeptidase

Question 13

What is colorless, produced by oxidative actions of intestinal bacteria, undergoes significant enterohepatic circulation, and fecal levels decreased in biliary obstruction

Answer 13

Urobilinogen

Question 14

Which cases of jaundice is due to a defect in the uptake of bilirubin with the hepatocyte resulting in increases in serum unconjugated bilirubin

Answer 14

Gilbert’s syndrome

Question 15

What is the major fate of the bilirubin excreted into the intestine

Answer 15

Conversion to urobilinogen by the flora of the large intestine

Question 16

A negative hbsag and anti HBC antibody with a positive anti HBS antibody indicates

Answer 16

Immunization with hepatitis B vaccine

Question 17

The liver enzyme responsible for bilirubin conjugation is

Answer 17

Glucuronyl transferase

Question 18

Urinary urobilinogen is usually increased in hepatic obstruction because of

Answer 18

A higher percentage of reabsorbed urobilinogen reaching the circulation

Question 19

What substance gives feces its normal color

Answer 19

Urobilin

Question 20

The most widely used methods for bilirubin measurement are those based on the

Answer 20

Jendrassik grof method

Question 21

What liver enzyme will be increased to a markedly increased in alcoholic cirrhosis

Answer 21

GGT