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Hepatic failure due to massive iron ingestion successfully treated with liver transplantation
K Kozaki1, H Egawa, R Garcia-Kennedy
1Department of Transplantation, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, USA.
Clinical Transplantation
|April 1, 1995
Abstract:
A 3-year-old female had fulminant hepatic and renal failure due to massive iron ingestion, despite gastric lavage, deferoxamine administration, hemodialysis and continuous arteriovenous hemofiltration. She underwent a successful emergency liver transplantation on 5th day after ingestion and was discharged 25 days later with excellent liver and renal function.