Liver failure in transplanted liver due to Amanita falloides.
Two patients underwent liver transplantation due to Amanita falloides poisoning. In one of them the clinical symptoms, signs, and laboratory findings related to liver failure were similar to the findings before the transplantation. The patient died and the pathological examination of the liver was similar to the patient's earlier explanted liver.
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Ege University Medical Faculty, General Surgery, Sh. Dursun Bakan Sk., Hilal sit. A blok D:21 Kartal, Istanbul 81410, Turkey. hfkucuk@hotmail.com
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Kilic
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D000328:Adult; D000545:Amanita; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D017093:Liver Failure / Q000209:etiology*; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D009145:Mushroom Poisoning / Q000473:pathology*; D012086:Reoperation; D017211:Treatment Failure; D016896:Treatment Outcome