title: Successful treatment of a child with fulminant liver failure and coma caused by Amanita phalloides intoxication with albumin dialysis without liver transplantation.
abstract: FLF is a life-threatening disease. Hepatic coma exerts dramatic impact on patient survival. At present, LTx is the treatment modality of choice that provides significant improvement in outcome of most patients with FLF. Multiple attempts have been made to reduce mortality and improve the patient's condition. One of the new options is AD - MARS. We present the case of a 11-yr-old boy with FLF and hepatic coma who avoided the scheduled LTx because of rapid neurological and biochemical improvement immediately after three MARS sessions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Children's Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland. jacek.rubik@wp.pl
authors.forename: Jacek
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rubik
authors.forename: Elzbieta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pietraszek-Jezierska
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kamiński
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Skarzynska
authors.forename: Sergiusz
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jóźwiak
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pawłowska
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Drewniak
authors.forename: Sylwester
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Prokurat
authors.forename: Ryszard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Grenda
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kaliciński
mesh_terms: D000545:Amanita; D002648:Child; D006501:Hepatic Encephalopathy / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D008297:Male; D009145:Mushroom Poisoning / Q000628:therapy*; D016060:Sorption Detoxification