ELEVATED LIVER ENZYMES IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS

Liver damage in patients with gallstones is thought to be the result of chronic extra hepatic large bile duct obstruction with or without repeated episodes of cholangitis and may ultimately progress to secondary biliary cirrhosis (11).Hepatic viral infection is by no means the only cause of acute hepatitis (Chen etal, 2007). One sitting in which there may be an acute inflammation of the liver parenchyma is the presence of common bile duct stones and cholangitis