Liaquat Ali, Nagina Fatima, Mashoor Alam Shah, Iftikhar Hussain.
Fulminant Hepatic Failure- A Devastating Problem.
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak Jan ;10(7):255-7.

A prospective study of 20 consecutive patients admitted with fulminant hepatic failure was conducted from January, 1998 to December, 1998 (in Medical Intensive Care Unit, Jinnah Postgraduate I Medical Centre, Karachi). The objective was to identify the causes of fulminant hepatic failure and their relation with the outcome among 20 patients, 11 of them were males and 9 were females. Most of the patients were in their 2nd and 3rd decades. The most common cause of fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) was viral,present in 18 (80%) out of 20 cases, in 02 patients the cause remained indeterminated. Hepatitis B was found in 8 (40%), Hepatitis E in 5 (25%), Hepatitis A in 3 (15%). Hepatitis C antibodies were not present in any patient.Fourteen patients died and mortality rate was 70%.

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