Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT)

ALT (Alanine Aminotransferase), Serum Glutamate-pyruvate Transaminase (SGPT), SGPT (Serum Glutamate-pyruvate Transaminase)

What Affects the Test

Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:

• Taking medicines. Talk with your health professional about all the prescription and nonprescription medicines you are taking. You may be instructed to stop taking your medicines for several days before the test.
• Taking some herbs and natural products, such as echinacea and valerian.
• Strenuous exercise, injury to a muscle, or injections into a muscle.
• Recent cardiac catheterization or surgery.

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Author:	Sydney Youngerman-Cole, RN, BSN, RNC	Last Updated January 18, 2006
Medical Review:	Martin Gabica, MD - Family Medicine Jerome B. Simon, MD, FRCPC, FACP - Gastroenterology
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