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

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...

Consequences of acute renal failure relevant to hepatic failure.

SIGNIFICANT renal insufficiency is found in 75% of patients dying from liver failure. Whether the liver failure is due to an acute illness (such as fulminant hepatitis) or chronic disease (such as cirrhosis) the occurrence of renal failure carries a grave prognosis (Shear, Keinerman and Gabuzda, 1965; Wilkinson, Blendis and Williams, 1974) and in a survey of 471 patients with cirrhosis, renal f...

Renal retention of sodium in cirrhosis and fulminant hepatic failure.

Abnormal renal retention of sodium is a characteristic finding in both cirrhosis and fulminant hepatic failure. In cirrhosis the pathogenesis varies according to the level of renal perfusion. When this is normal, hyperaldosteronism is probably the most important factor and this results from an increased release of renin by the kidney. The stimulus to the latter may be a shunting of blood from t...

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

Spectrum of renal tubular damage in renal failure secondary to cirrhosis and fulminant hepatic failure.

Measurements of urinary lysozyme were used to evaluate renal tubular integrity in 34 patients with cirrhosis or fulminant hepatic failure who had developed renal impairment. In 18 of the patients the lysozyme values were normal but in the remaining 16 were increased, supporting previous concepts that renal failure complicating hepatocellular disease may occur both without and with tubular necro...