Emergency liver transplantation in fulminant hepatitis
β Scribed by Marc I. Lorber
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 278 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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β¦ Synopsis
Liver transplantation in hepatitis delta virus disease. Lancet 1987; 2~469-471.
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Drug-induced hepatotoxicity is an important cause of hepatocellular injury. Non-nucleoside retroviral transcriptase inhibitors are known to cause hepatotoxicity. We describe a detailed case of fulminant hepatitis induced by nevirapine (Viramune) and treated by liver transplantation.
s an indication for transplantation, fulminant A hepatic failure (FHF) accounts for approximately 7% of the liver transplantations currently performed in the United States and This percentage is very small in comparison with the number of transplants performed for chronic liver disease, but FHF domi