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2006 Current Consult: Medicine
Fatty Liver of Pregnancy, Acute
Sections: Key Features, Clinical
Findings, Diagnosis, Treatment, Author(s).
Excerpt:
| |  Acute hepatic failure in the third trimester
of pregnancy
Mortality of 20–30% with early delivery Etiology unknown in most cases 20% linked to fetal LCHAD deficiency Fatty engorgement of hepatocytes seen on CT of liver and on biopsy Incidence of 1:14,000 deliveries |
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