Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Fulminant hepatic failure

Clinical features, etiology, epidemiology, and current management

  • Conference Report
  • Published:
Digestive Diseases and Sciences Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Trey C: The fulminant hepatic failure surveillance study: Brief review of the effects of presumed etiology and age of survival. Can Med Assoc J 106(suppl):525–527, 1972

    Google Scholar 

  2. Bernuau J, Rueff B, Benhamou J-P: Fulminant and subfulminant liver failure: definitions and causes. Semin Liver Dis 6:97–106, 1986

    Google Scholar 

  3. Gimson AES, O'Grady J, Ede RJ, Portmann B, Williams R: Late onset hepatic failure: Clinical, serological and histological features. Hepatology 6:288–294, 1986

    Google Scholar 

  4. Ede RJ, Williams R: Hepatic encephalopathy and cerebral edema. Sem Liver Dis 6:107–118

  5. Gimson AES, White YS, Eddleston ALWF, Williams R: Clinical and prognostic differences in fulminant hepatic failure. Gut 24:1194–1198, 1983

    Google Scholar 

  6. Horowitz ME, Schafer DF, Molnar P, et al: Increased blood-brain transfer in a rabbit model of acute liver failure. Gastroenterology 84:1003–1011, 1983

    Google Scholar 

  7. Canalese J, Gimson AES, Davis C, et al: Controlled trial of desamethasone and mannitol for the cerebral oedema of fulminant hepatic failure. Gut 23:625–629, 1970

    Google Scholar 

  8. Ring-Larsen H, Palazzo U: Renal failure in fulminant hepatic failure and terminal cirrhosis: A comparison between incidence, types and prognosis. Gut 22:585–591, 1981

    Google Scholar 

  9. O'Grady JO, Langley PG, Isola LM, Aledort LM, Williams R: Coagulopathy of fulminant hepatic failure. Semin Liver Dis 6:159–163, 1986

    Google Scholar 

  10. Macdougall BRD, Williams R: H2-receptor antagonist in the prevention of upper gastrointestinal hemorrage in fulminant hepatic failure. Gastroenterology 74:464–465, 1978

    Google Scholar 

  11. Singh R, Singh MM, Hazra DK: A study of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy in hepatic coma complicating acute viral hepatitis. Angiology 34:470, 1983

    Google Scholar 

  12. Manzillo G, Sagnelli E, Maio G, Smeraglia R, Izzo CM, Buonocore S, Peluso S: Definizione etiologica in 22 casi di epatite fulminante. Giorn Mal Infett Parass 36:1035, 1984

    Google Scholar 

  13. Rakela J, Mosley JW, Redeker AG: The role of hepatitis A virus in fulminant hepatic failure. Gastroenterology 69:854, 1975

    Google Scholar 

  14. Zacarias J, Brinck P, Cordero J, Velasco M: Etiologies of fulminant hepatitis in pediatric patients in Santiago, Chile. Pediatr Infect Dis J 6:686–687, 1987

    Google Scholar 

  15. Saracco G, Macagno S, Rosina F, Caredda F, Antinori S, Rizzetto M: Serologic markers with fulminant hepatitis in persons positive for hepatitis B surface antigen. Ann Intern Med 108:380–383, 1988

    Google Scholar 

  16. Smedile A, Verme G, Cargnel A, Dentico P, Opolon P, Vergani D, Farci P, Caredda F, Caporaso N, Trepo C, Gimson A, Williams R, Rizzetto M: Influence of delta infection on severity of hepatitis B. Lancet 2:945–947, 1982

    Google Scholar 

  17. Zuckerman AJ: The enigma of fulminant viral hepatitis. Hepatology 4:568, 1984

    Google Scholar 

  18. Piazza M: Fulminant viral hepatitis. Lancet 2:227, 1975

    Google Scholar 

  19. Benhamou J-P: Symposium on Emergencies in Gastroenterology. Bologna, March 1989

  20. O'Grady JG, Gimson AES, O'Brien CJ, Pucknell A, Hughes RD, Williams R: Controlled trial of charcoal hemoperfusion and prognostic factors in fulminant hepatic failure. Gastroenterology 94:1186–1192

  21. Bernuau J, Goudeau A, Poynard T, Dubois F, Lesage G, Yvonnet B, Degott C, Bezeaud A, Rueff B, Benhamou J-P: Multivariate analysis of prognostic factors in fulminant hepatitis. Hepatology 6:648–651, 1986

    Google Scholar 

  22. Williams R: Poreword. Semin Liver Dis 6:93–95, 1986

    Google Scholar 

  23. Hanid MA, Davies M, Mellon PJ: Clinical monitoring of intracranial pressure in fulminant hepatic failure. Gut 21:866–869, 1980

    Google Scholar 

  24. Ede RJ, Gimson AES, Bihari D, Williams R: Controlled hyperventilation in the prevention of cerebral edema in fulminant hepatic failure. J Hepatol 2:43–51, 1986

    Google Scholar 

  25. Price DJ, Mason J: An attempt to rationalize the medical management of intracranial hypertension. Br J Anesth 53:31, 1981

    Google Scholar 

  26. Bismuth H: Symposium on Emergencies in Gastroenterology. Bologna, March 1989.

  27. Bismuth H, Samuel D, Gugenheim J, Castaing D, Bernuau J, Rueff B, Benhamou J-P: Emergency liver transplantation for fulminant hepatitis. Ann Intern Med 107:337–341, 1987

    Google Scholar 

  28. Peleman RR, Gavaler JS, Van thiel DH, Esquivel C, Gordon R, Iwatsuki S, Starzl TE: Orthotopic liver transplantation for acute and subacute hepatic failure in adults. Hepatology 7:484–489, 1987

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. II Division of Gastroenterology, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

    Livio Capocaccia & Mario Angelico

Authors
  1. Livio Capocaccia
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Mario Angelico
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Capocaccia, L., Angelico, M. Fulminant hepatic failure. Digest Dis Sci 36, 775–779 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01311236

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01311236

Keywords

Search

Navigation