Acute Warfarin Toxicity as Initial Manifestation of Metastatic Liver Disease

المؤلفون المشاركون

Niazi, Masooma
Lvovsky, Dmitry
Nannaka, Varalaxmi Bhavani
Jani, Nihar

المصدر

Case Reports in Critical Care

العدد

المجلد 2016، العدد 2016 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2016)، ص ص. 1-6، 6ص.

الناشر

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

تاريخ النشر

2016-03-02

دولة النشر

مصر

عدد الصفحات

6

التخصصات الرئيسية

الأمراض

الملخص EN

Near complete infiltration of the liver secondary to metastasis from the head and neck cancer is a rare occurrence.

The prognosis of liver failure associated with malignant infiltration is extremely poor; the survival time of patients is extremely low.

We present a case of acute warfarin toxicity as initial manifestation of metastatic liver disease.

Our patient is a 64-year-old woman presenting with epigastric pain and discomfort, found to have unrecordable International Normalized Ratio.

She rapidly deteriorated with acute respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation, profound shock requiring high dose vasopressor infusion, severe coagulopathy, worsening liver enzymes with worsening of lactic acidosis and severe metabolic abnormalities, and refractory to aggressive supportive care and died in less than 48 hours.

Autopsy revealed that >90% of the liver was replaced by tumor masses.

نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)

Nannaka, Varalaxmi Bhavani& Jani, Nihar& Niazi, Masooma& Lvovsky, Dmitry. 2016. Acute Warfarin Toxicity as Initial Manifestation of Metastatic Liver Disease. Case Reports in Critical Care،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1100449

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)

Nannaka, Varalaxmi Bhavani…[et al.]. Acute Warfarin Toxicity as Initial Manifestation of Metastatic Liver Disease. Case Reports in Critical Care No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1100449

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)

Nannaka, Varalaxmi Bhavani& Jani, Nihar& Niazi, Masooma& Lvovsky, Dmitry. Acute Warfarin Toxicity as Initial Manifestation of Metastatic Liver Disease. Case Reports in Critical Care. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1100449

نوع البيانات

مقالات

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

الملاحظات

Includes bibliographical references

رقم السجل

BIM-1100449