Are heat stroke and physical exhaustion underestimated causes of acute hepatic failure?

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 306-309

  Weigand, Kilian ^a,b   Riediger, Carina ^a   Stremmel, Wolfgang ^a   Flechtenmacher, Christa ^a   Encke, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute hepatic failure; Heat shock; Heat stroke; Hyperthermia; Liver failure

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CERULOPLASMIN; COPPER; CREATINE KINASE; FERRITIN; HEPATITIS A ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFUSION FLUID; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; COLLAPSE; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; ECHOGRAPHY; EXHAUSTION; FOLLOW UP; HEAT STROKE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPERTROPHIC OBSTRUCTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MARATHON RUNNER; NAUSEA; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; VOMITING;

EID: 33846904839     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v13.i2.306     Document Type: Article

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