Gastroenterology MCQ 098
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A surgical colleague refers you a 73-year-old man who has been on home intravenous artificial feeding (PN) for the past eight weeks because of a post-operative entero-cutaneous fistula. The man’s wife thought that he looked yellow. Laboratory data reveals a Hct of 30%, a normal chemistry and mineral panel, a total Bilirubin of 6.5mg/dl with a Conjugated Bilirubin of 4.2mg/dl, alkaline phosphatase 345 mU/ml, AST 85 mU/ml, ALT 43 mU/ml, LDH 240 mU/ml. The appropriate next step and its reasoning would be. 
A. Check for surreptitious anabolic steroids, which he might be using for potency.
B. Ignore because these are routine liver enzyme abnormalities associated with intravenous artificial feeding (PN)
B. Ignore because these are routine liver enzyme abnormalities associated with intravenous artificial feeding (PN)
C. Perform a liver biopsy to rule out progressive chronic fibrosis seen with long-term intravenous artificial feeding (PN)
D. Order an abdominal ultrasound to rule out choledocholithiasis
D. Order an abdominal ultrasound to rule out choledocholithiasis
Category: Gastroenterology MCQs
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