Patient's question:
I've always heard people talking about the severity of liver disease issues, but I still don't know until now. In our unit, there's a senior colleague who was diagnosed with fatty liver during a health check-up. When he chatted with me, he mentioned that his transaminase levels were a bit high. I don't really understand what he means by that. I don't know what fatty liver and transaminase levels mean.Doctor's answer:
Fatty liver expansion follows a four-step progression. Simple fatty liver, fatty hepatitis, fatty liver fibrosis, and cirrhosis are stages of fatty liver disease. Only at the stage of fatty hepatitis in the expansion of fatty liver does the situation of elevated transaminase levels reappear. Transaminase is a substance within liver cells, and it only enters the bloodstream when liver cells are inflamed and their membranes rupture. Therefore, once transaminase levels rise, it should be taken seriously.