A Rare Case of Acute Liver Failure Secondary to Miliary Liver Metastasis

Acute liver failure (ALF) is a potentially fatal condition that adversely affects multiple organs and has a high mortality rate. ALF due to hepatic infiltration is rare even though it is a common place for cancer to metastasize. Patients with ALF usually present with abdominal pain and elevated live...

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Autores principales: Weeraddana, Prabasha, Thomas, Teena, Weerasooriya, Niwanthi, Mohamed Jiffry, Mohamed Zakee, Golovyan, Dmitriy, Bal, Shubhneet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9817182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36628026
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32282
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author Weeraddana, Prabasha
Thomas, Teena
Weerasooriya, Niwanthi
Mohamed Jiffry, Mohamed Zakee
Golovyan, Dmitriy
Bal, Shubhneet
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description Acute liver failure (ALF) is a potentially fatal condition that adversely affects multiple organs and has a high mortality rate. ALF due to hepatic infiltration is rare even though it is a common place for cancer to metastasize. Patients with ALF usually present with abdominal pain and elevated liver function tests. We report a case of a 65-year-old male that developed ALF due to miliary liver metastasis of non-small cell carcinoma from an unknown primary origin. The patient initially presented with a couple of episodes of coffee-ground emesis and epigastric pain. Upon further evaluation, along with computed tomography (CT) scans and liver biopsy, the diagnosis was established. The patient passed away on the 12(th) day of hospitalization.
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spelling pubmed-98171822023-01-09 A Rare Case of Acute Liver Failure Secondary to Miliary Liver Metastasis Weeraddana, Prabasha Thomas, Teena Weerasooriya, Niwanthi Mohamed Jiffry, Mohamed Zakee Golovyan, Dmitriy Bal, Shubhneet Cureus Internal Medicine Acute liver failure (ALF) is a potentially fatal condition that adversely affects multiple organs and has a high mortality rate. ALF due to hepatic infiltration is rare even though it is a common place for cancer to metastasize. Patients with ALF usually present with abdominal pain and elevated liver function tests. We report a case of a 65-year-old male that developed ALF due to miliary liver metastasis of non-small cell carcinoma from an unknown primary origin. The patient initially presented with a couple of episodes of coffee-ground emesis and epigastric pain. Upon further evaluation, along with computed tomography (CT) scans and liver biopsy, the diagnosis was established. The patient passed away on the 12(th) day of hospitalization. Cureus 2022-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9817182/ /pubmed/36628026 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32282 Text en Copyright © 2022, Weeraddana et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Weeraddana, Prabasha
Thomas, Teena
Weerasooriya, Niwanthi
Mohamed Jiffry, Mohamed Zakee
Golovyan, Dmitriy
Bal, Shubhneet
A Rare Case of Acute Liver Failure Secondary to Miliary Liver Metastasis
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title_full A Rare Case of Acute Liver Failure Secondary to Miliary Liver Metastasis
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Acute Liver Failure Secondary to Miliary Liver Metastasis
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Acute Liver Failure Secondary to Miliary Liver Metastasis
title_short A Rare Case of Acute Liver Failure Secondary to Miliary Liver Metastasis
title_sort rare case of acute liver failure secondary to miliary liver metastasis
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9817182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36628026
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32282
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