Acute Liver Failure due to Hepatitis A Virus

Acute liver failure (ALF) is a syndrome, rather than a specific disease, with several possible causes, and viral hepatitis is a major cause. The relationship between self-limited and ALF hepatitis A is still poorly understood. A 45-year-old woman presented to our hospital with ALF diagnosis (from an...

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Autores principales: Shammout, Reem, Alhassoun, Turki, Rayya, Fadi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2021
Materias:
Case and Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8647103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34949977
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000514393
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Sumario:Acute liver failure (ALF) is a syndrome, rather than a specific disease, with several possible causes, and viral hepatitis is a major cause. The relationship between self-limited and ALF hepatitis A is still poorly understood. A 45-year-old woman presented to our hospital with ALF diagnosis (from another hospital). She suffered from hospital-acquired pneumonia. The patient recovered within 4 weeks and returned to her normal life after 6 months of follow-up.

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