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Liver Transplantation for Acute Liver Failure at 11-Week Gestation with Successful Maternal and Fetal Outcome
Joint Authors
Maddukuri, Vinaya C.
Stephenson, Courtney D.
Russo, Mark W.
Purdum, Preston
Ahrens, William A.
Eskind, Lon
Source
Case Reports in Transplantation
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-7, 7 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2012-11-26
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Acute liver failure (ALF) during pregnancy is very uncommon.
Pregnancy-specific liver conditions like hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets (HELLP) syndrome and acute fatty liver of pregnancy can cause ALF at term or postpartum, but, typically occur during the third trimester.
Most of these patients recover spontaneously after delivery, but, on occasion, they require liver transplantation in the postpartum period.
However, ALF during the first and second trimester of pregnancy requiring antepartum liver transplantation is rare.
Only fifteen cases of liver transplantation during pregnancy have been reported, and very few occurred during the first trimester.
We report a Woman who developed acute liver failure during the first trimester of pregnancy and underwent successful liver transplantation at 11-week gestation, followed by successful delivery of the fetus at 30 weeks.
To our knowledge, this is the earliest case of successful liver transplantation during pregnancy followed by successful fetal outcome.
We discuss management of the patient and fetus before, during, and after liver transplantation and review the literature on antepartum liver transplant in pregnancy.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Maddukuri, Vinaya C.& Stephenson, Courtney D.& Eskind, Lon& Ahrens, William A.& Purdum, Preston& Russo, Mark W.. 2012. Liver Transplantation for Acute Liver Failure at 11-Week Gestation with Successful Maternal and Fetal Outcome. Case Reports in Transplantation،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-475266
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Maddukuri, Vinaya C.…[et al.]. Liver Transplantation for Acute Liver Failure at 11-Week Gestation with Successful Maternal and Fetal Outcome. Case Reports in Transplantation No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-7.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Maddukuri, Vinaya C.& Stephenson, Courtney D.& Eskind, Lon& Ahrens, William A.& Purdum, Preston& Russo, Mark W.. Liver Transplantation for Acute Liver Failure at 11-Week Gestation with Successful Maternal and Fetal Outcome. Case Reports in Transplantation. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-475266
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-475266