Acute Liver FailureBackground: Hepatic angiosarcoma is a rare tumor of endothelial origin that accounts for up to 2% of all primary neoplasms of the liver. It is uncommon in young adults and acute liver failure is a very unusual presentation of this disease. Case Presentation: We report the ...
Acute liver failure after administration of paracetamol at the maximum recommended daily dose in adults. BMJ. 2010;341:c6764.Lee Claridge et al. Acute liver failure after administration of paracetamol at the maximum recommended daily dose in adults. British...
10]. ALF occurs in less than 1% of cases of acute hepatitis A but could be a form of HAV evolution in older adulthood, or in patients with preexisting chronic liver disease [1]. Vaccination, as a form of prevention, is recommended for adults traveling...
hepatitis B will develop chronic infection which can causeliverdamage,liver failure(wherethelivercan’t work properly) and sometimes liver cancer when they are adults. mhahs.org.au mhahs.org.au 当感染时间持续超过6个月,他们就是感染了慢性乙型肝炎。感染乙型肝炎的婴儿,90%会感染成慢性乙型肝炎,可造...
Liver Transplantation Volume 12, Issue 11, pages 1715–1719, November 2006Additional Information How to Cite Perkins, J. D. (2006), Acute liver failure in children: They really are not just small adults: Acute liver failure in children: The first 348 patients in the Pediatric Acute Liver Fa...
Acute liver failure (ALF) in children differs from that observed in adults in both the etiologic spectrum and the clinical picture. Children, particularly very young ones, do not demonstrate classical features of encephalopathy and the definition of ALF has been revised to include patients with adva...
Acute liver failure (ALF) is a severe condition characterized by rapidly progressive liver injury, hepatic encephalopathy, and impaired synthetic function, which results in coagulopathy. The most c...
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Currently in the United States, spontaneous survival occurs in approximately 45%, liver transplantation in 25%, and death without transplantation in 30% of adults with ALF. Higher rates of spontaneous recovery (56%) and transplantation (31%) with lower rates of death (13%) occur in children....
The likelihood of spontaneous recovery depends on the etiology of ALF, encephalopathy stage, and development of multiorgan failure. N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is recommended for all patients with suspected acetaminophen (APAP) overdose, and may also be of benefit in adults with non-APAP-related ALF ...