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Role of infection and exchange transfusion in fulminant hepatic failure
D G de Silva1, A J Fernando, I V Devasiri
1Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna, Galle, Sri Lanka.
The Ceylon Medical Journal
|December 1, 1993
Abstract:
We report three patients with fulminant hepatic failure following sepsis managed by exchange transfusion. The literature on the role of infection in the pathogenesis of fulminant liver failure and of exchange transfusions in its management is reviewed.