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

• Author(s): Souto, P ; Romãozinho, JM ; Figueiredo, P ; Sousa, I ; Camacho, E ; Donato, A ; Freitas, D
• Date: 1997
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.4/582
• Origin: Repositório do Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra
• Subject(s): Insuficiência Hepática Aguda; Linfoma de Burkitt
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

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.