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Massive hepatic necrosis in the HELLP syndrome: CT correlation
K S Chiang1, P A Athey, N Lamki
1Department of Radiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030.
Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
|September 1, 1991
Abstract:
We present a patient with toxemia of pregnancy and the HELLP syndrome [hemolysis (H), elevated liver enzymes (EL), and a low platelet count (LP)] resulting in massive hepatic necrosis. Cross-sectional imaging, including sonography, computed tomography, and nuclear medicine, was instrumental in the diagnosis and differentiation from hepatic abnormalities of other pregnancy related entities especially acute fatty liver of pregnancy.