Hepatic failure in the tropics.

Hepatic Exhaustion, and Its Influence on Health in the Tropics

ence of malaria ; but they would, perhaps, have been nearer the truth had they attributed them to the influence of a disordered liver. So universal are derangements of the liver during the hot weather in the tropics, that we rarely meet with any disease in which they do not form a part, and in which we have not accordingly to modify our treatment. They also exercise a most injurious influence o...

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...

Hepatic regeneration: implications in fulminant hepatic failure.

Although the incidence of fulminant hepatic failure appears to have decreased worldwide, the management of this dreaded condition remains unsatisfactory (1). Despite ingenious methods of treatment, the mortality in patients with grade IV coma is still between 80 and 90% in most major series (15, 20). Furthermore the mortality is nearly 100% in patients ov~r the age of 45 who develop grade IV co...

Fulminant hepatic failure due to metastatic choroidal melanoma

The biochemistry of hepatic failure.

There are few, if any, metabolic functions of the body in which the liver does not participate. It is not surprising, therefore, that the biochemistry of hepatic failure is an extremely complex one. The liver plays a vital role in carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism and, in addition, because of its unique anatomical position, provides detoxicating mechanisms to inactivate harmful products ...