Less common causes
Other causes of elevated liver enzymes may include:
- Liver cancer [4]
- autoimmune hepatitis
- celiac disease
- infection with the Epstein-Barr virus, a type of herpes [5]
- hemochromatosis, when the body absorbs too much iron
- mononucleosis
- sepsis, or blood poisoning
- Wilson’s disease
- polymyositis, which involves inflammation of the muscles
Certain medications have been discovered to be the cause of elevated liver enzymes. Medications like pain relievers and statin.
Elevated liver enzymes are asymptomatic, but the underlying conditions responsible for them are what determine the symptoms one may experience.