Fulminant hepatic failure caused by tuberculosis.

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

Fulminant hepatic failure due to metastatic choroidal melanoma

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 lung injury in fulminant hepatic failure following paracetamol poisoning.

BACKGROUND There is little information on the incidence of acute lung injury or changes in the pulmonary circulation in acute liver failure. The aim of this study was to record the incidence of acute lung injury in fulminant hepatic failure caused by paracetamol poisoning, to document the associated pulmonary circulatory changes, and to assess the impact of lung injury on patient outcome. MET...

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...