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acute infantile liver failure
Pathology:
- transient disorder of hepatic function
Genetics:
- associated with defects in TRMU
- defect in mitochondrial respiration
Clinical manifestations:
- jaundice
- vomiting
- coagulopathy
- patients who survive the initial acute episode can recover & show normal development
Laboratory:
- liver function tests
- serum transaminases are elevated
- serum bilirubin: hyperbilirubinemia
- coagulation studies: coagulopathy
- plasma lactate: lactic acidosis
General
acute liver failure (ALF)
genetic disease of the liver
Database Correlations
OMIM 613070
References
OMIM :accession 613070