08-13-2009, 10:57 PM
It depends on what you mean by "hepatitis." The word hepatitis means inflammation of the liver. Your doctor will be doing some basic liver function blood work. If the enzymes are high on those, then that could mean your liver does have active inflammation going on which is hepatitis, so therefore the answer could be yes if you mean it this way.
Often times people think of hepatitis means the viral hepatitis of hep A, B, C, and D. These are just one type of hepatitis but your doctor would have to order specific testing different from the liver function tests in order to check for those. They don't typically do this unless there is a reason to suspect the person could possibly have one of those. An example would be that if your enzymes were very highly elevated and your liver was enlarged, the doctor would want further testing done by checking for the viruses on top of the liver function tests in trying to figure out why your blood work is abnormal and your liver is enlarged.
If the doctor is just doing some routine blood work where maybe you are on a med that affects the liver and he just wants to keep checking on that, then there would be no need for any other testing except the liver function tests.
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