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What are the causes of fulminant liver failure?
Fulminant liver failure most commonly happens during acute viral hepatitis, but it is also the result of mushroom poisoning by Amanita phalloides and toxic reactions to some medicines, like an overdose of acetaminophen.
How does hepatocyte cause death?
If this stops working you will die from acute liver failure
What causes hyperestrinism?
Complication of liver failure
What are the causes of flapping tremor?
Liver failure, renal failure, co2 narcosis
What causes liver failure in a shih tzu?
Grapes
What organs does Jaundice affect?
Liver failure (typically "Acute Liver Failure"), and Pancreatic Cancer causes Jaundice, a Yellowing of the skin or of the whites of the eyes more correctly called conjunctival icterus.
Explain how malaria causes acute renal failure?
caused by dehydration
What are the causes of tender hepatomegaly?
Tenderness of liver is due to stretching of Glisson's capsule. The common causes of tender hepatomegaly (enlarged liver) are - 1. Acute viral hepatitis 2. Liver abscess (pyogenic or amoebic) 3. Congestive Cardiac Failure (CCF) 4. Budd-Chiari syndrome 5. Hepatoma 6. Cholangio-hepatitis etc
What does excessive ingestion of ethanol over a long period causes?
That causes the cirrhosis of the liver. You get the signs of liver failure and portal hypertension at the same time.
Symptoms of liver failure?
Early symptoms of liver failure include jaundice, nausea, vomiting, tiredness, difficulty concentrating, and confusion. These symptoms may be accompanied by pain in the upper right area of the abdomen.
What other problems require liver transplantation?
Included among the many causes of liver failure that bring patients to transplant surgery are:
When is encephalopathy fatal?
Despite intensive treatment, encephalopathy caused by acute liver inflammation (fulminant hepatitis) is fatal for as many as 80% of patients. Those with chronic liver failure often die in hepatic coma.
