A women with acute liver failure

An 18- year-old woman was seen in the emergency department of the Massachusetts general hospital 11 weeks after the birth of her first child because of acute liver failure.During pregnancy, dilutional hypoalbuminemia and elevation of the placental- derived alkaline phosphatase level can lead providers to falsely assume that the patient has liver disease. The two episodes of rejection resolved after treatment with intravenous methylprednisolone and an increase in immunosuppression maintenance therapy..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:376

Enthalten in:

The New England journal of medicine - 376(2017), 3, Seite 268

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Schaefer, Esperance A [VerfasserIn]
Olson, K.R [Sonstige Person]
Davarpanah, Amir H [Sonstige Person]
Misdraji, Joseph [Sonstige Person]
Elias, Nahel [Sonstige Person]

BKL:

44.60

44.00

Themen:

Care and treatment
Diagnosis
Emergency service
Hospitals
Immunosuppression
Liver diseases
Management
Usage

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RVK Klassifikation

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1991145195