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Mercury as a cause of fulminant hepatic failure in a child: Case report and literature review
- Source :
- Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology. 35:580-582
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2011.
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Abstract
- Fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) in children is devastating unless urgent liver transplantation is undergone. Intoxication or drug-related FHF is a well-known group of causes leading to FHF. Mercury intoxication is described in the literature to cause hepatitis but not described to cause DRESS (drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms) syndrome and FHF in the same patient. We describe a child with mercury intoxication and FHF with clinical features fulfilling DRESS syndrome criteria. To our best knowledge, this is the first case report of fatal acute liver failure secondary to mercury intoxication in the English literature. Mercury intoxication should receive a worldwide attention to its consequences in order to minimize the morbidities and mortalities that arise from its intoxication.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
chemistry.chemical_element
Liver transplantation
Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms
Fatal Outcome
Fulminant hepatic failure
Humans
Medicine
Eosinophilia
Drug reaction
Child
Intensive care medicine
Hepatitis
Hepatology
business.industry
Gastroenterology
Liver failure
Liver Failure, Acute
medicine.disease
Surgery
Mercury (element)
chemistry
Mercury Poisoning
Female
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 22107401
- Volume :
- 35
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8c6dab59fcdc94307af20bf38d597433