title: Acute hepatic failure in pregnancy.
abstract: Severe liver dysfunction in late pregnancy is an unusual but dramatic event because it can progress very rapidly to fulminating disease and also because two lives, that of the mother and foetus, are involved. We report a descriptive study of a pregnant woman presenting with severe liver dysfunction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecology and Human Reproduction, Via Giustiniani 3, 35128 Padova, Italy. paternod@unipd.it
authors.forename: Delia M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Paternoster
authors.forename: Pier Francesco
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Gerace
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Manganelli
authors.forename: Patrizia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Boccagni
authors.forename: Umberto
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Cillo
authors.forename: Davide
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: D'Amico
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D019694:Hepatitis B, Chronic / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D017114:Liver Failure, Acute / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D008111:Liver Function Tests; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D049590:Postpartum Period; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D016896:Treatment Outcome