Severe acute liver failure as the initial manifestation of haematological malig...

• Autor(es): Souto, P ; Romãozinho, JM ; Figueiredo, P ; Sousa, I ; Camacho, E ; Donato, A ; Freitas, D
• Data: 1997
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.4/582
• Origem: Repositório do Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra
• Assunto(s): Insuficiência Hepática Aguda; Linfoma de Burkitt
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

Acute liver failure is rarely secondary to lymphoma or leukaemia and it is extremely uncommon as the initial presentation of malignancy. We report a case of a young adult patient with severe acute liver failure referred for liver transplant, in which a Burkitt acute lymphoblastic leukaemia was diagnosed by bone marrow examination. A complete recovery and long remission were obtained with chemotherapy.