Liver transplantation because of acute liver failure due to heme arginate overdose in a patient with acute intermittent porphyria

Case Reports in Gastroenterology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 190-196

  Frei, Pascal ^a   Minder, Elisabeth I ^b   Corti, Natascia ^a   Muellhaupt, Beat ^a   Geier, Andreas ^a   Adams, Heiner ^a   Dutertre, Jean Paul ^c   Rudiger, Alain ^a   Dutkowski, Philipp ^a   Maggiorini, Marco ^a   Ganter, Christoph C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TRIEMLI HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c Orphan Europe   (France)

Author keywords

Acute intermittent porphyria; Acute liver failure; Heme arginate; Liver transplantation; Overdose

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALBUMIN; AMINOTRANSFERASE; CALCITRIOL; CHARCOAL; DIPYRONE; GLUCOSE; HEME ARGINATE; HEPARIN; LACTULOSE; MACROGOL; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; OXAZEPAM; PARACETAMOL; PROPRANOLOL; SEVELAMER; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ACUTE INTERMITTENT PORPHYRIA; ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CONTINUOUS HEMODIAFILTRATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TOXICITY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; OLIGURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

EID: 84860720890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16620631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000338354     Document Type: Review

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