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Liver Failure, Acute

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Definition: A form of rapid-onset LIVER FAILURE, also known as fulminant hepatic failure, caused by severe liver injury or massive loss of HEPATOCYTES. It is characterized by sudden development of liver dysfunction and JAUNDICE. Acute liver failure may progress to exhibit cerebral dysfunction even HEPATIC COMA depending on the etiology that includes hepatic ISCHEMIA, drug toxicity, malignant infiltration, and viral hepatitis such as post-transfusion HEPATITIS B and HEPATITIS C.     
Examples Massive Hepatic Necrosis 		Other names Liver Failures, Fulminating; Liver Failures, Fulminant; Liver Failure, Fulminating; Hepatic Failures, Fulminating; Liver Failure, Fulminant; Hepatic Failure, Fulminant; Fulminating Hepatic Failure; Hepatic Failures, Fulminant; Hepatic Failure, Fulminating; Fulminating Liver Failures; Fulminating Hepatic Failures; Fulminant Liver Failures; Fulminant Liver Failure; Fulminant Hepatic Failures; Fulminant Hepatic Failure; Failure, Acute Liver; Failure, Acute Hepatic; Acute Hepatic Failure; Hepatic Failure, Acute; Fulminating Liver Failure

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