Successful treatment of a child with fulminant liver failure and coma caused by Amanita phalloides intoxication with albumin dialysis without liver transplantation

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 295-300

  Rubik, Jacek ^a   Pietraszek Jezierska, Elzbieta ^a   Kamiński, Andrzej ^a   Skarzynska, Anna ^a   Jóźwiak, Sergiusz ^a   Pawłowska, Joanna ^a   Drewniak, Tomasz ^a   Prokurat, Sylwester ^a   Grendal, Ryszard ^a   Kaliciński, Piotr ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Albumin dialysis; Fulminant liver failure; Hepatic coma; Liver transplantation; Molecular Adsorbent Recirculating System

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

AMANITA PHALLOIDES; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIALYSIS; HEPATIC COMA; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MOLECULAR ADSORBENT RECYCLING SYSTEM; MUSHROOM POISONING; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMANITA; CHILD; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MUSHROOM POISONING; SORPTION DETOXIFICATION;

EID: 2942716905     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2004.00170.x     Document Type: Article

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