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Tim Mitchell

Tim Mitchell

Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist at Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia.

Aug 30, 2026

2:37
And sort of how do you differentiate between the different PFIX subtypes?
2:42
So at last count there are 13 so that makes it very difficult.
2:48
The usual way to approach it is to really sort of look at the GTT and they're probably two main subgroups.
2:55
There's people with maybe a primary cholestasis which may be a hepatocyte cholestasis.
2:59
They can't get rid of the bile from their hepatocytes and then there's another group which has more of a cholangitis.
3:07
or a cholangiopathy type presentation where the bile is damaging their bile ducts and their biliary tree.
3:14
And the main way to differentiate that would be the GGT level.
6:12
And how do you explain genetic testing and how do you interpret a variant of uncertain significance?

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