Fulminant Hepatic Failure Secondary to Primary Hepatic Angiosarcoma

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

Acute liver failure due to primary angiosarcoma: A case report and review of literature

BACKGROUND Hepatic angiosarcoma is a primary sarcoma of the liver, accounting for only 2% of all primary hepatic malignancies. Acute liver failure is an extremely rare presentation of a primary liver tumour. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of a seventy year-old man who presented with a very short period of jaundice leading to fulminant hepatic failure (FHF). On further investigation he was...

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...

Liver transplantation for cryptogenic liver failure caused by diffuse hepatic angiosarcoma: case report

BACKGROUND Primary hepatic angiosarcoma is a non-epithelial malignancy derived from sinusoidal endothelial cells, accounting for approximately 1.8% of primary hepatic malignancies. Diagnosis of primary hepatic angiosarcoma is complicated by difficulties in the qualitative radiological assessment of these tumors. Prognosis is very poor due to local recurrence and distant metastasis after liver r...