Treatment of a Case of Fulminant Hepatic Failure with Continuous Infusion of Prostandin (PGE1)

Fulminant hepatic failure is a serious clinical syndrome with high mortality because of the limitation of therapeutic modality. However, survivors usually recover completely. Our experience with prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) treatment of a patient with acute fulminant viral hepatitis, who had a history of...

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Autores principales: Han, Chang Soon, Kim, Hak San, Kim, Seung Hee, Jang, Dae Whan, Lee, Eun Joo, Yang, In Seok
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Association of Internal Medicine 1988
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4534952/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3154194
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.1988.3.2.154
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author Han, Chang Soon
Kim, Hak San
Kim, Seung Hee
Jang, Dae Whan
Lee, Eun Joo
Yang, In Seok
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description Fulminant hepatic failure is a serious clinical syndrome with high mortality because of the limitation of therapeutic modality. However, survivors usually recover completely. Our experience with prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) treatment of a patient with acute fulminant viral hepatitis, who had a history of blood transfusion and immunosuppressive therapy for aplastic anemia, will be presented.
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spelling pubmed-45349522015-10-02 Treatment of a Case of Fulminant Hepatic Failure with Continuous Infusion of Prostandin (PGE1) Han, Chang Soon Kim, Hak San Kim, Seung Hee Jang, Dae Whan Lee, Eun Joo Yang, In Seok Korean J Intern Med Case Report Fulminant hepatic failure is a serious clinical syndrome with high mortality because of the limitation of therapeutic modality. However, survivors usually recover completely. Our experience with prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) treatment of a patient with acute fulminant viral hepatitis, who had a history of blood transfusion and immunosuppressive therapy for aplastic anemia, will be presented. Korean Association of Internal Medicine 1988-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4534952/ /pubmed/3154194 http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.1988.3.2.154 Text en Copyright © 1988 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Han, Chang Soon
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Yang, In Seok
Treatment of a Case of Fulminant Hepatic Failure with Continuous Infusion of Prostandin (PGE1)
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title_full_unstemmed Treatment of a Case of Fulminant Hepatic Failure with Continuous Infusion of Prostandin (PGE1)
title_short Treatment of a Case of Fulminant Hepatic Failure with Continuous Infusion of Prostandin (PGE1)
title_sort treatment of a case of fulminant hepatic failure with continuous infusion of prostandin (pge1)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4534952/
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