Plasma adsorption for patients with hepatic failure.

Glyphosate Poisoning with Acute Fulminant Hepatic Failure

Background: Glyphosate containing herbicides are widely used the world over. They are marketed as nontoxic to humans, but numerous studies have showed that these glyphosate-based herbicides (GlySH) can cause multiorgan damage.1 Recent reports of animal studies on rats have raised a doubt of liver damage after long term exposure to GlySH. Case Presentation: a young male had chronic exposure to G...

Plasma prostaglandins in fulminant hepatic failure.

[Purification and partial characterization of hepatocyte growth factor from plasma of patients with fulminant hepatic failure].

Human hepatocyte growth factor (hHGF) has been purified from plasma of a patient with fulminant hepatic failure. The purification procedure consists of five steps, heat treatment of plasma, ammonium sulfate precipitation, and chromatography on Affi-Gel Blue, heparin-Sepharose, and hydroxylapatite. Starting with 930 ml of plasma from a patient, 37 micrograms of hHGF has been obtained, representi...

Decreased Plasma Clearance and Hepatic Extraction of Aldosterone in Patients with Heart Failure.

Hospital-acquired invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with hepatic failure

BACKGROUND Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) is a rapid, progressive, fatal disease that occurs mostly in immunocompromised patients. Patients with severe liver disease are at a heightened risk for infections. Little is known about the clinical presentation including predisposing factors and treatment of IPA in patients with hepatic failure. METHODS Medical records of patients with hepat...