Fatal Fulminant Hepatic Failure in a Diabetic with Primary Dengue

Fulminant Hepatic Failure and Fatal Cerebral Edema Following Clostridium perfringens Bacteremia: Case Report and Review of Literature

Clostridium perfringens (CP) bacteremia is a rare but rapidly fatal infection. Only 36 cases of CP bacteremia with gas containing liver abscesses on image studies have been reported in the literature since 1990. In this report, we describe a 65-year-old diabetic male with CP bacteremia which progressed into fulminant hepatic failure with subsequent fatal cerebral edema.

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

A hospital-based study of hepatic dysfunction in children with dengue fever

Dengue is the most rapidly spreading mosquito-borne viral disease in the world. In the last 50 years, the incidence of the disease has increased by 30 folds with the increasing geographic expansion to new countries, and in the present decade, its incidence extends from urban to rural settings. Some 1.8 billion (more than 70%) of the population who are at risk of dengue worldwide live in the mem...

Fulminant hepatic failure due to metastatic choroidal melanoma