{"id":32910,"date":"2023-04-02T11:46:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T08:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labcare.gr\/?p=32910"},"modified":"2023-04-19T00:00:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T21:00:48","slug":"%ce%b3-gt-gamma-glutamyl-transferase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/%ce%b3-gt-gamma-glutamyl-transferase\/","title":{"rendered":"\u03b3- GT (gamma-glutamyl transferase)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>About the test<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gamma glutamyl transferase \u00a0is an enzyme found mainly in the liver and in the bile ducts \u00a0and constitutes a sensitive diagnostic index when it comes to liver and biliary disease. \u00a0It is also found in other organs such as the heart, kidneys, pancreas, brain and the spleen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sample<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Venous blood<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preparation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>None required. Water is allowed<\/p>\n<p><strong>Procedure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Venipuncture<\/p>\n<p><strong>Increased values\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cholestasis<\/li>\n<li>Alcoholism<\/li>\n<li>Hepatitis (acute &amp; chronic)<\/li>\n<li>Drugs (paracetamol, phenobarbital, phenytoin, antifungals)<\/li>\n<li>Fatty liver<\/li>\n<li>Obstructive jaundice<\/li>\n<li>Pancreatitis<\/li>\n<li>Infectious mononucleosis<\/li>\n<li>Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Decreased values<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hypothyroidism<\/li>\n<li>Drugs (contraceptives, clifibrate)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Additional information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u03b3-GT screening is widely used for the laboratory differential diagnosis of elevated alkaline phosphatase (ALP) values.<\/p>\n<p>If ALP is elevated due to hepatobiliary disease, \u03b3-GT is also elevated, whereas if ALP is elevated due to bone disease, \u03b3-GT is normal.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamma glutamyl transferase \u00a0is an enzyme found mainly in the liver and in the bile ducts \u00a0and constitutes a sensitive diagnostic index when it comes to liver and biliary disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-list-of-exams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33514,"href":"http:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32910\/revisions\/33514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labcare.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}