Raised ALP - factors to consider

[mysterious]

Hi guys. im tryin to find out - when u have raised ALP from lab, wat do u need to consider when interpretin the results? i can seem to find out sufficient info bout it! ne help wud be much appreciated!
HAPPY NEW YR TOO!!!xxxx

[Arch_Angel]

Aside from what you're looking for in liver related conditions:

Raised in kids due to bone growth/resorption
Raised in Pagets due to the same
Raised in pregnancy due to production in placenta

So any kids with pagets that are pregnant are going to have a really high ALP

Consider yourself LFTed...

[Arch_Angel]

Actually, now I write that, my wonderful hometown (Rochdale) has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy and is also in the list of a dozen or so lancs towns that has high Pagets (for reasons unknown)......

ALP for all!!!

[mysterious]

thanks for tht! yeh i have this presentation to do on it and am tryin to gather info which is provin difficult. any weblinks u may hav or bk refs wud b appreciated!

btw, i used to live in rochdale..a long time ago b4 moving to cardiff. think primary skool was All saints then high skool was Wardle high. know of it?x

[Arch_Angel]

I was aware of them anyway, but to check I was right I typed things like "high ALP pregnancy" into google.

I expect you could use pubmed/PNAS too. If you have trouble let me know and i'll have a go for you.

I know both the schools. I went to Norden, then to Oulder Hill....ahh...what a poverty stricken, scum laden, recently PFI'd, mismanaged (I used to work there) seat of academic squalor that hole was.

Are you on the med course at Cardiff?

[mysterious]

yeh think i was too young to notice all tht stuff.no not in cardiff (well i m atm for hols) but moved to norwich for med. i know few ppl there tyho.wat yr u in?x

[Arch_Angel]

First currently...

Lucky you got away

[curlysin]

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