Comprehensive Metabolic Panel

[nikita825]

My creatinine is .8 - the bilirubin is .3 - and the albumin is 3.6.   Cam anyone give me an idea what that means.

[HectorSF]

As Will said, all tests are normal. Meaning your liver is still able to perform all of its functions. Only when the liver reaches End-Stage Liver Disease so these values become abnormal as Eureka said. They do not mean your liver isn't damaged by the hepatitis C they only mean that your liver isn't damaged to an extreme degree.
A biopsy will tell you exactly how damaged your liver is. Not blood tests unless you have  some degree of cirrhosis.

Good luck.
Hector

[eureka254]

Those numbers are important numbers when you have cirrhosis.  Having normal creatinine, bili, and albumin usually indicates a well-compensated liver, which is good.  When cirrhosis progresses, it's not unusual to see those numbers start going out of range (see will's post above); creatinine and bili go up, albumin goes down when liver dysfunction increases.

Those numbers are also important as part of measuring a patient's long-term survival and need to be listed for transplant, commonly referred to as the MELD score (Model for End-stage Liver Disease).  If you got your INR results, which indicates bleeding time, you can do a calculation here:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/meld/mayomodel6.html

Hope that helps.~eureka

[willbb]

creatine(normal range ) .6 -1.2       so .8 is normal
Bili(normal level)  .2  -1.2          so .3 is normal
albumin(normal range)  3.5  -4.8     so 3.6 is normal

Creatinine is a kidney function test and the other 2 are  liver function tests and they are all good.

Hope that helps

Will