Acute hepatic failure in pregnancy.
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.
Paternoster
Delia M
DM
Department of Gynecology and Human Reproduction, Via Giustiniani 3, 35128 Padova, Italy. paternod@unipd.it
Gerace
Pier Francesco
PF
Manganelli
Francesca
F
Boccagni
Patrizia
P
Cillo
Umberto
U
D'Amico
Davide
D
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