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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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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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author | Shammout, Reem Alhassoun, Turki Rayya, Fadi |
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description | 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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spelling | pubmed-86471032021-12-22 Acute Liver Failure due to Hepatitis A Virus Shammout, Reem Alhassoun, Turki Rayya, Fadi Case Rep Gastroenterol Case and Review 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. S. Karger AG 2021-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8647103/ /pubmed/34949977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000514393 Text en Copyright © 2021 by S. Karger AG, Basel https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-4.0 International License (CC BY-NC) (http://www.karger.com/Services/OpenAccessLicense). Usage and distribution for commercial purposes requires written permission. |
spellingShingle | Case and Review Shammout, Reem Alhassoun, Turki Rayya, Fadi Acute Liver Failure due to Hepatitis A Virus |
title | Acute Liver Failure due to Hepatitis A Virus |
title_full | Acute Liver Failure due to Hepatitis A Virus |
title_fullStr | Acute Liver Failure due to Hepatitis A Virus |
title_full_unstemmed | Acute Liver Failure due to Hepatitis A Virus |
title_short | Acute Liver Failure due to Hepatitis A Virus |
title_sort | acute liver failure due to hepatitis a virus |
topic | Case and Review |
url | 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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