Decoding the Liver Panel: What the Chemistry is Really Telling You, Vet Lab Medicine Mini-talk 2

" In this lecture, we break down the serum liver panel using a systems approach—so you can read the numbers like a clinician, not a checklist. You'll learn the three core categories of liver markers (leakage enzymes, induced/cholestatic enzymes, and true function tests), what ALT, AST, ALP, GGT, bilirubin, albumin, BUN, and bile acids each actually measure, and the crucial dog-vs-cat differences that change how you interpret them. We finish with a step-by-step liver panel workflow and three real case challenges—Cushing's disease, a portosystemic shunt, and a jaundiced cat—to put it all into practice. Perfect for veterinary students, technicians, and practitioners who want to interpret hepatic biomarkers with confidence. If you’d like more short, clear vet laboratory medicine/clin path lessons, feel free to subscribe. And if this video helped, a quick like tells YouTube to share it with other students who might need it. ⏱️ Topics covered: • Leakage vs. induced vs. function tests • Why elevated enzymes ≠ liver failure • Classifying bilirubin: pre-hepatic, hepatic, post-hepatic • Bile acids as the gold-standard function test • Three worked clinical cases #VetMed #VeterinaryMedicine #ClinicalPathology #LiverPanel #SmallAnimalMedicine #VetStudent #VetTech #ClinPath #Hepatology #VeterinaryEducation #DVM #AnimalHealth #Bloodwork #VetSchool #navle #dvm #VetLabMed #SurvivingVetSchool #vetschool #vetstudent #vetstudents #navle #dvm #VetLabMed #SurvivingVetSchool #vetschool #vetstudent #vetstudents