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Relative adrenal insufficiency manifested with multiple organ dysfunction in a liver transplant patient

✍ Scribed by Takeshi Iwasaki; Masahiro Tominaga; Takumi Fukumoto; Nobuya Kusunoki; Takemi Sugimoto; Masahiro Kido; Satoshi Ogata; Atsushi Takebe; Motofumi Tanaka; Yonson Ku


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
203 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
1527-6465

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✦ Synopsis


Relative adrenal insufficiency is now a well-known clinical condition that occurs in critically ill patients particularly with septic complication. However, this pathology has long been unrecognized until recently in liver transplantation patients, for whom postoperative immunosuppressive therapies almost always comprise corticosteroids. We report an obvious case of relative adrenal insufficiency manifested by severe multiple organ dysfunction in a recipient after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). A 38-year-old woman with multiple hepatocellular carcinoma developed refractory liver failure 2 months after the completion of the dual treatment; namely a cytoreductive right hepatectomy for bulky main tumors followed by 2 courses of percutaneous isolated hepatic perfusion for residual tumors in the remnant liver. She underwent a right-lobe LDLT, and postoperative immunosuppression was initiated with a low-dose tacrolimus monotherapy without corticosteroid because of a severe septic condition before transplantation. Postoperatively, she developed progressive hyperbilirubinemia, renal dysfunction, and coagulopathy. As the corticotropin stimulation test suggested the relative adrenal insufficiency, corticosteroid was commenced 40 days after LDLT. Thereafter, multiple organ dysfunction resolved dramatically and promptly. The patient is presently alive and well with completely normalized liver function 45 months after LDLT.


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