Frequency and type of renal and electrolyte disorders in fulminant hepatic failure.

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...

Renal failure in fulminant hepatic failure and terminal cirrhosis: a comparison between incidence, types, and prognosis.

Forty patients with terminal cirrhosis and 40 patients with fulminant hepatic failure-all consecutively admitted-were studied with regard to incidence, types, and prognosis of complicating renal insufficiency. Renal failure was considered present when the serum creatinine was greater than 0.20 mmol/l. Of the patients with cirrhosis 26 (65%) developed renal failure. In 15 the type was functional...

بررسی کاهش شنوایی و اختلالات ادیومتری در بیماران مبتلا به نارسایی مزمن کلیه، همودیالیز مزمن و پیوند کلیه مراجعه کننده به بیمارستان کودکان علی‌اصغر از سال 1381 تا 1382

Hearing loss is an important complication in chronic renal failure. The etiology of hearing loss is various in these patients, but uremia is the most important cause(uremic neuropathy). Other etiologies include electrolyte disorders (hyperkalemia-hyponatremia), vascular disorders, susceptibility to infections, antibiotics (e.g. aminoglycosides) and antihypertensive drugs. Studies on...

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

Frequency of renal impairment in paracetamol overdose compared with other causes of acute liver damage.

In an analysis of 160 patients with fulminant hepatic failure, the frequency of renal failure in the patiens who had taken an overdose of paracetamol was not significantly higher than in those with hepatic failure due to other causes. The same was found in another group of patients with less severe hepatic damage. In both the latter group and the patients with fulminant hepatic failure, the dev...