What does high gamma gt in blood mean?

Answer 1

The liver is a sort of chemical factory that makes some things that are essential to use in the body and it also breaks down and gets rid of some of the unwanted products of your body's chemical processes.

Some liver function tests, like the gamma GT (gamma-glytamyl transpeptidase), are very sensitive and can be raised by something as simple as taking paracetamol regularly and perhaps a bit too often, or as complicated as showing damage caused by too much alcohol.

Other liver function tests can be abnormal if certain drugs are making the chemical factory work too hard, or if the liver is being damaged by drugs.

Or it could mean that the liver is affected by an infection, like a viral hepatitis or damaged by some other disease process.

Answer 2

Gamma GT (or Gamma-glytamyl transpeptidase) is an enzyme that is present in biliary epithelial cells and hepatocytes. High levels of Gamma GT could indicate Liver disease. Certain drugs (such as barbiturates) can also cause increased levels of Gamma GT, and can be responsible for raising the levels of Gamma GT that is present in the blood.