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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease hepatitis
Symptom C0162557|acute hepatic failure
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PubMedID- 25717260 acute hepatic failure due to hepatitis b virus (hbv) can occur both during primary infection as well as after reactivation of chronic infection.
PubMedID- 24004574 Previous studies showed that decreasing serum afp levels predicted poor prognosis of acute hepatic failure in patients with chronic hepatitis b and an increase in afp level was strongly associated with a favorable outcome in patients with acetaminophen-induced liver injury .
PubMedID- 24344160 For the latter criterion, two patients (one ra, one as) had cholelithiasis, one ra patient had hepatitis leading to acute hepatic failure of unknown cause and ultimately death, one as patient had hepatic stenosis, and one as patient had hepatitis.
PubMedID- 24383021 We present a case of successful super-urgent liver transplantation during the second trimester of pregnancy after acute hepatic failure due to an acute hepatitis b infection with positive maternal and fetal outcome.

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