Are heat stroke and physical exhaustion underestimated causes of acute hepatic failure?

Glyphosate Poisoning with Acute Fulminant Hepatic Failure

Background: Glyphosate containing herbicides are widely used the world over. They are marketed as nontoxic to humans, but numerous studies have showed that these glyphosate-based herbicides (GlySH) can cause multiorgan damage.1 Recent reports of animal studies on rats have raised a doubt of liver damage after long term exposure to GlySH. Case Presentation: a young male had chronic exposure to G...

Acute Hepatic Failure as a Leading Manifestation in Exertional Heat Stroke

Background. Acute hepatic failure (AHF) is uncommon as a leading symptom in patients with exertional heat stroke (EHS). Which stage to perform the liver transplantation for severe hepatic failure in EHS is still obscure at clinical setting. The conservative management has been reported to be successful in treating heat-stroke-associated AHF even in the presence of accepted criteria for emergenc...

Acute hepatic necrosis and fulminant hepatic failure.

Fulminant hepatic failure' is defined as severe, acute impairment of hepatic function culminating in hepatic encephalopathy, the encephalopathy being the result of hepatocellular failure and supervening within three weeks of the onset of symptoms*. This definition excludes the hepatic encephalopathy of hepatic cirrhosis and of chronic hepatitis, which produces a slightly different clinical pict...

determination of some physical and mechanical properties red bean

چکیده: در این تحقیق، برخی خواص فیزیکی و مکانیکی لوبیا قرمز به-صورت تابعی از محتوی رطوبت بررسی شد. نتایج نشان داد که رطوبت بر خواص فیزیکی لوبیا قرمز شامل طول، عرض، ضخامت، قطر متوسط هندسی، قطر متوسط حسابی، سطح تصویر شده، حجم، چگالی توده، تخلخل، وزن هزار دانه و زاویه ی استقرار استاتیکی در سطح احتمال 1 درصد اثر معنی داری دارد. به طوری که با افزایش رطوبت از 54/7 به 12 درصد بر پایه خشک طول، عرض، ضخام...

Acute fulminant hepatic failure due to colchicine – a rare manifestation of Gloriosa superba poisoning.