Abstract:
OBJECTIVE:To describe a postpartum patient who presented with fulminant hepatic failure and hepatic coma as a result of unrecognized peripartum cardiomyopathy. DESIGN:Case report. SETTING:Medical intensive care unit of a tertiary care academic medical center. PATIENT:A 35-yr-old woman 5 wks postpartum from an uneventful spontaneous vaginal delivery who was transferred to our institution with fulminant hepatic failure and worsening hepatic encephalopathy of unknown etiology for consideration of liver transplantation. INTERVENTIONS:An echocardiogram was obtained as part of an evaluation for refractory shock and the patient was found to have severe global hypokinesis with an ejection fraction of approximately 15%. She was diagnosed with peripartum cardiomyopathy and treatment with digoxin and afterload reduction was initiated. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:After initiation of appropriate treatment for dilated cardiomyopathy, the patient's hepatic failure resolved and she made a full recovery. CONCLUSIONS:Congestive heart failure is one of the few treatable causes of fulminant hepatic failure. Congestive heart failure must always be included in the differential diagnosis of fulminant hepatic failure of unknown pathogenesis.
journal_name
Crit Care Medjournal_title
Critical care medicineauthors
Fussell KM,Awad JA,Ware LBdoi
10.1097/01.ccm.0000158517.25962.8esubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2005-04-01 00:00:00pages
891-3issue
4eissn
0090-3493issn
1530-0293pii
00003246-200504000-00029journal_volume
33pub_type
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-200011000-00021
更新日期:2000-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-200206000-00006
更新日期:2002-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Mannitol is widely used in hospitals worldwide to treat patients with high intracranial pressure and/or cerebral edema. One of the mechanisms by which mannitol is thought to affect intracranial pressure is by increasing the patient's serum osmolarity, but not the osmolarity in the brain or cerebrospinal fluid...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000050287.68977.84
更新日期:2003-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-197701000-00007
更新日期:1977-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-200203000-00027
更新日期:2002-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.ccm.0000159193.42628.e8
更新日期:2005-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:This study determined the time course for inhibition of lipopolysaccharide-induced acute lung injury following a single dose of genistein. In addition, the study investigated whether a multiple dosing schedule with genistein retained the inhibitory effects on acute lung injury, nuclear factor-kappaB activatio...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000049941.84695.BA
更新日期:2003-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199705000-00026
更新日期:1997-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198208000-00009
更新日期:1982-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000000611
更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000002425
更新日期:2017-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199207000-00018
更新日期:1992-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198410000-00013
更新日期:1984-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000004446
更新日期:2020-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000000148
更新日期:2014-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000003971
更新日期:2019-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198911000-00019
更新日期:1989-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000045182.90302.B3
更新日期:2003-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::An 8-yr-old child suffered traumatic bilateral pneumothoraces and a ruptured right main bronchus. Surgical repair of the bronchus was postponed for 18 h after a definite diagnosis was established due to severe hypoxemia and hypercarbia. Only left endobronchial high-frequency ventilation with muscle relaxation correcte...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198712000-00019
更新日期:1987-12-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000084857.87446.DD
更新日期:2003-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199909000-00015
更新日期:1999-09-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000277043.85378.C1
更新日期:2007-08-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199403000-00009
更新日期:1994-03-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000001188
更新日期:2015-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198401000-00018
更新日期:1984-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000004724
更新日期:2021-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181b9eaa5
更新日期:2010-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198707000-00007
更新日期:1987-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000004543
更新日期:2020-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000002075
更新日期:2017-02-01 00:00:00