Daniel Gotthardt, Carina Riediger, Karl Heinz Weiss, Jens Encke, Peter Schemmer, Jan Schmidt, Peter Sauer
Fulminant hepatic failure is characterized by the development of severe liver injury with impaired synthetic capacity and encephalopathy in patients with previous normal liver or at least well compensated liver disease. The etiology of fulminant hepatic failure refers to a wide variety of causes, of which toxin-induced or viral hepatitis are most common. In spite of specific therapeutic options in distinctive etiologies, orthotopic liver transplantation is the only therapy proven to improve patient survival in the majority of patients...
September 2007: Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation