Differential diagnosis
Common
Infrequent
- Alcohol excess
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy
- Alcoholic liver disease
- Hepatitis C
- Ischaemic hepatitis
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
Rare
- Acute liver failure
- Hepatitis A
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Hepatitis B
- Haemochromatosis
- Malaria (Falciparum)
- Acute fatty liver of pregnancy
- Enteric fever (typhoid/paratyphoid)
- Psittacosis
- Iliopsoas abscess
- Legionella pneumonia
- Wilson's disease
Specific differential diagnosis
TYPES
Cholestatic LFTsHepatocellular LFTs
Jaundice
Low albumin