[Leukocyte alkaline phosphatase in epidemic hepatitis]

The carried out investigations on 70 patients with epidemic hepatitis, 52 of them treated with prednisolon and 18-symptomatically revealed the following: the normal alkaline phosphatase, established prior to the treatment, was elevated with the applied prednisolon treatment and showed no significant alteration in the patients without cortico-therapy. No correlation was found between leukocyte alkaline phosphatase and serum alkaline phosphatase transaminase, serum bilirubin and thymol test. No relationship was found between the severity of the ailment course and the leukocyte alkaline phosphatase.