Acute liver failure in children: observations in Vitória, Espírito Santo State, Brazil Insuficiência hepática aguda na criança: observações em Vitória, Estado do Espírito Santo, Brasil

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Sandra F. Moreira-Silva, Diana O. Frauches, Alba L. Almeida, Haydée F.M.S. Mendonça, Fausto Edmundo L. Pereira
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2002
• Subjects: Hepatite fulminante; Insuficiência hepática; Hepatite aguda; Hepatite A; Hepatite; Fulminant hepatitis; Liver failure; Acute hepatitis; Hepatitis A; Hepatitis; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Aguda; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86822002000500010; https://doaj.org/article/1da091c895ef475bb3b2825d535b158f

In this communication we report 46 cases of acute liver failure in children diagnosed at the Hospital Infantil Nossa Senhora da Glória in Vitória, E Santo. Serology for IgM anti-HAV, IgM anti-HBc, HbsAg, anti-HCV and biochemical tests were performed in all cases in a routine laboratory. The M/F rati...