Spontaneous Resolution of Brain Edema in Fulminant Hepatic Failure due to Hepatitis E

Rapid progression of encephalopathy in a patient with hepatitis B infection.

The mortality rate of fulminant hepatic failure was high until liver transplantation was presented as a potential therapy. We encountered a patient with hyperacute fulminant hepatic failure due to hepatitis B virus infection. Living donor liver transplantation was planned but abandoned because her brain edema progressed too rapidly to complete the donor evaluation. The present case reveals the ...

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 Tissue Engineering

Liver disease afflicts over 600 million people worldwide, 30 million of whom are Americans. Liver disease leads to the death of over 40,000 individuals in the United States every year. Liver failure can be generally separated into two major categories: fulminant hepatic failure, also referred to as acute liver failure, and chronic hepatic failure resulting from chronic end-stage liver disorders...

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

Fulminant hepatic failure: summary of a workshop.

Fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) is defined by the appearance of severe liver injury with hepatic encephalopathy in a previously healthy person. There are an estimated 2,000 cases of FHF in the United States yearly, representing 0.1% of all deaths and, perhaps, 6% of liver-related deaths. The causes of FHF are many, the chief ones in the United States being hepatitis A; B; non-A, non-B and drug ...