Acute liver failure in the setting of herpes simplex virus and coexistent acute fatty liver of pregnancy
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Acute liver failure in the setting of herpes simplex virus and coexistent acute fatty liver of pregnancy
Fulminant hepatitis is a rare complication of herpes simplex virus (HSV-1 and HSV-2). Another rare cause of fulminant hepatitis in pregnant women is acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP). Here we present a female with fulminant hepatitis after a cesarean section whose infant clinically decompensated in the early neonatal period. Mother and child were diagnosed with fulminant hepatic failure fro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Clinical Pathology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2331-2734,2331-2726
DOI: 10.5430/crcp.v2n2p89