2 months or so ago, I went and found a GI doc to get a colonoscopy. Even though I'm 42, I wanted to get it done since my grandfather died of colon cancer. I brought her my labs from the past few years since I have always had high ALT. She ran a hepatitis panel and I came back with high GGT, high CRP, and most importantly, a smooth muscle antibody of 1:160. This indicates autoimmune hepatitis, but that's only confirmed via biopsy. So that was done April 15, results just came back and they say:
- Moderate steatosis (40%)
- Fibrosis stage 1a
- Mild Lobular inflammation
- No definitive ballooning degeneration of hepatocytes seen
- No florid duct lesions, sclerosing cholangitis, ductopenia, of bile duct scars seen
- No significant cholestasis
- Trichrome stain shows mild centrilobular perisinusoidal fibrosis
- Iron stain is negative
- PAS-D stain is negative for hyaline globules
- Reticulin stain shows intact
Anybody else here diagnosed via biopsy? I meet with my GI in about 10 days, so will discuss with a professional, but curious what you all think of this data. Time to start the research on fighting this!
u/IUMaestro — 10 days ago