Fulminan Hepatitis in Childhood: Report of Three Cases

Ziya Bayraktaroğlu; Ercan Sivaslı; Yavuz Coşkun; Murat Karaoğlan

doi:10.58600/eurjther.1999-10-1-2-1510-arch

Authors

Ziya Bayraktaroğlu Gaziantep Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı,Gaziantep
Ercan Sivaslı Gaziantep Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı,Gaziantep
Yavuz Coşkun Gaziantep Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı,Gaziantep
Murat Karaoğlan Gaziantep Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı,Gaziantep

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58600/eurjther.1999-10-1-2-1510-arch

Keywords:

Hepatitis A, liver failure, prognosis

Abstract

Although known as a clinical conditions which usually recover spontaneously with good prognosis,hepatitis caused by hepatitis A virus stili continue to be a serious problem in developing countries. Hepatitis A induced fulminant liver failure accompanied by encephalopathy is rarely seen in children. in this report we presented three patients aged 2.5, 3 and 4 years with hepatitis A induced fulminant liver failure who have been lost by deep hepatic coma. Ali three patients showed the following factors that were found to be associated with poor prognosis: prolongation of prothrombin time, age of six years or less, hypoglycemia and gastrointestinal hemorrhage.

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