Acute liver failure in children: 20-year experience


Baris Z., SALTIK TEMİZEL İ. N., Uslu N., Usta Y., DEMİR H., Gurakan F., ...Daha Fazla

TURKISH JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY, cilt.23, sa.2, ss.127-134, 2012 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 23 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2012
  • Doi Numarası: 10.4318/tjg.2012.0319
  • Dergi Adı: TURKISH JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.127-134
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Acute liver failure, Wilson's disease, pediatric, FULMINANT HEPATIC-FAILURE, ETIOLOGY, INDICATORS, INFECTION, DISEASE, VIRUS
  • Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Background/aims: We aimed to determine the causes, demographic findings, clinical status, outcomes, and prognostic risk factors of patients with acute liver failure admitted to Hacettepe University Children's Hospital between October 1987 - October 2006. Methods: This retrospective case study included 74 patients with acute liver failure according to the Pediatric Acute Liver Failure Study Group definition. Results: The etiology of acute liver failure was metabolic in 26 (35.1%) and infectious in 21 (28.4%) patients. Sixteen (21.6%) patients had indeterminate causes. Wilson's disease (16/26 patients, 61.5%) was the most frequent metabolic disease, while hepatitis A (14/21 patients, 66.7%) was the most frequent infectious agent. Neurologic functions were normal in 21(28.4%) patients. Forty-nine (66.2%) patients died and 24 (32.4%) recovered. Two patients underwent liver transplantation. The mortality rate was 82.9% for patients who were not transplanted but fulfilled King's College Hospital criteria and 45.4% for patients who were not suitable for transplantation. This difference was statistically significant (p=0.001). Total bilirubin >5.35 mg/dl, international normalized ratio (INR) >3.66 and prothrombin time >23.5 seconds were shown to be the risk factors to predict death. Conclusions: Metabolic and infectious etiologies were responsible for most of the acute liver failure cases. Clinical encephalopathy may not be present in children.