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What an LFT report contains

18 Biochemistry Webforest Digital 2 min read

Liver function test is one biochemistry panel, not eleven separate bills, unless the laboratory sells the pieces that way. The sample is serum. The method line says spectrophotometry or kinetic. The opening price is ₹750.

The lines on the panel

Total bilirubin, direct bilirubin, indirect bilirubin, SGOT / AST, SGPT / ALT, alkaline phosphatase, GGT, total protein, albumin, globulin and the A/G ratio. Indirect bilirubin, globulin and the ratio are on the panel as their own rows. If a value is left blank, that row does not print.

The ranges move with age, and for the enzymes they also move with sex once the patient is older. Total bilirubin from the age of 2 opens at 0.2–1.2 mg/dL. A baby in the first two weeks is on a much wider band, 1.0–12.0, because the catalogue treats neonatal bilirubin as a different range. ALP is wide in childhood and narrower in adults. From 18 years the opening ALP band is 35–104 U/L for a woman and 40–129 U/L for a man. Those are the stored bands, not a comment on a particular patient.

If the doctor asked for one enzyme

SGPT, SGOT, ALP, GGT and a bilirubin pair also exist as single tests in Biochemistry, with their own opening prices. Booking the panel and a single enzyme on the same bill prints both. That is a counter choice, not something the software merges.

SGPT alone opens at ₹150. People sometimes search for an ALT report and an LFT report as if they were different products. In this catalogue they are the same enzyme, once inside the panel and once on its own.

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