Acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP) is a potentially fatal metabolic disorder that manifests during the third trimester. Early diagnosis, termination of pregnancy, and treatment of complications associated with AFLP significantly reduce maternal morbidity and mortality. While most cases of AFLP occur before delivery, some may occur after vaginal delivery. Anesthesia providers should have a hi...

In the past two years, two women with acute fatty liver of pregnancy have presented at this hospital. Both patients survived, but their babies died; published rates for both mother and fetus are up to 85% mortality with this condition. Both patients presented with symptoms and signs of impending hepatic failure including jaundice, elevated aminotransferases, leukocytosis, hepatic encephalopathy...

BACKGROUND Liver disease in pregnancy can have serious consequences. Its prevalence, profile and effect on outcome of pregnancy have not been documented systematically in India. We prospectively determined the frequency, causes and outcome of liver disease in pregnant women. SETTING Tertiary-care teaching hospital. METHODS Consecutive pregnant women with liver disease attending the inpatien...

Acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP) is an idiopathic disorder with an unknown cause occurring in late pregnancy. The treatment in these patients is often immediate termination of pregnancy, and plasmapheresis provides an effective treatment option. In this paper, we introduce three pregnant women treated with plasmapheresis. The first case was a 22-year-old primigravida woman treated with 22 ...

Quantitative EEG changes associated with loss and return of consciousness in healthy adult volunteers anaesthetized with propofol or sevoflorane. Validating the sedation-agitation scale with the bispectral index and visual analog scale in adult ICU patients after cardiac surgery. In vivo quantification of liver dialysis: comparison of albumin dialysis and fractionated plasma separation. Brain e...

conclusions elevation of liver enzymes appears in 29 % obese children in a tertiary care centre. absolute alanine aminotransferase levels are significantly higher in obese than in overweight children. even obese children with normal liver enzymes show signs of fatty liver disease as demonstrated by liver enzymes at the upper limit of normal. results elevated alanine aminotransferase was observe...

A 24-year-old G2A1 at 34 weeks of gestation was admitted with complaints nausea, vomiting, pedal edema and high blood pressure recordings. She developed imminent symptoms after admission for which she received prophylactic magnesium sulphate therapy a provisional diagnosis severe preeclampsia made. With worsening hematological, liver renal parameters as did not fulfill the Swansea’s criteria ac...