Fulminant Hepatic Failure is the acute rapid injury of the liver characterized by dysfunction with impaired synthetic dysfunction and encephalopathy in a person with a previously normal liver or well compensated liver disease. There are a number of etiologies and one easy to remember mnemonic is :
A - Acetaminophen, hepatitis A, autoimmune hepatitis
B - Hepatitis B
C - Cryptogenic, hepatitis C
D - Hepatitis D, drugs
E - Esoteric causes - Wilson's disease, Budd-Chiari syndrome
F - Fatty Infiltration - acute fatty liver of pregnancy, Reye's syndrome
Drugs - either Tylenol or idiosyncratic reactions to other medications - remain the number one cause of FHF (fulminant hepatic failure) in North America. Please see attached link for some additional information about some drugs which have been implicated.
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can this be passed down from generation to generation. Seems my mom died from complications of Acute Yellow Atrophy. I was just released from the hospital with an abscess of the liver.
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