Fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) is an acute and eventually fatal illness, caused by a severe hepatocyte damage with massive necrosis. Its hallmarks are hepatic encephalopathy and a prolonged prothrombin time (<40%). FHF ...

Introduction. We describe a series of 10 children with intracranial hypertension complicating fulminant hepatic failure submitted to intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring for intensive care an transplantation management. ...

Hepatitis A is one of the most frequent infectious liver diseases affecting children worldwide. The disease is usually mild and self-limited, and complications are very rare. Nevertheless, hepatitis A can sometimes cause ...

The hepatitis C virus has a high mutation capacity that leads to the emergence of resistance-associated substitutions (RAS). However, the consequence of resistance selection during new direct-acting antiviral drug (DAA) ...

ANTECEDENTES: La perfusión hepática desempeña un papel importante en el desarrollo de la hepatitis hipóxica (HH), puesto que, aunque se ha demostrado ser causado por diversos factores, existen condiciones que tienen mayor ...