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.
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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