Fulminant hepatic failure in children and adolescents in Northern Brazil.

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.

Fulminant hepatic failure due to metastatic choroidal melanoma

Fulminant hepatic failure and serum phosphorus levels in children from the western part of Turkey.

BACKGROUND/AIMS Clinical and laboratory predictors of recovery in children with fulminant hepatic failure are limited. Recently, hypophosphatemia has been reported as a laboratory indicator of recovering liver function in children with fulminant hepatic failure . We aimed to determine the incidence of hypophosphatemia and its association with clinical outcome in children in our center with fulm...

Fulminant hepatic failure with typhoid fever in childhood.

Although hepatic dysfunction has been described among adults with typhoid, there are few reports of significant hepatic functional impairment in children with typhoid. Of 355 children with culture proven typhoid seen at the Aga Khan University Hospital, hepatomegaly was noted in 118 (33%) and isolated right hypochondrial tenderness in 30 (8.5%). The liver function tests were normal in 78% and 4...