Acute Liver Failure due to Hepatitis A Virus
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Fadi Rayya; Turki Alhassoun; Reem Shammout
- Source
- Case Reports in Gastroenterology
Case Reports in Gastroenterology, Vol 15, Iss 3, Pp 927-932 (2021)
- Subject
- business.industry
digestive, oral, and skin physiology
Gastroenterology
Liver failure
RC799-869
Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology
Hepatitis A
Virology
Hepatitis a virus
Fulminant hepatitis
Case and Review
Medicine
Hospital-acquired pneumonia
business
Acute liver failure
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1662-0631
Acute liver failure (ALF) is a syndrome, rather than a specific disease, with several possible causes, and viral hepatitis is a major cause. The relationship between self-limited and ALF hepatitis A is still poorly understood. A 45-year-old woman presented to our hospital with ALF diagnosis (from another hospital). She suffered from hospital-acquired pneumonia. The patient recovered within 4 weeks and returned to her normal life after 6 months of follow-up.