GI pathology 3

Question 1

Cuases of liver failure

Answer 1

• Infections
  
  • Viral hepatitis
  • Yellow fever
• Drugs
  
  • Paracetamol overdose
  • Isoniazid
• Vascular
  
  • veno-occulsive disease
• Others
  
  • alcohol
  • fatty liver disease
  • primary biliary cholangitis
  • primary sclerosing cholangitis
  • haemachromatosis autoimmune hepatitis
  • alpha₁-antitriypsin

Question 2

Signs of liver failure

Answer 2

• jaundice
• hepatic encephalopathy
• fetor hepaticus (smells like pear drops)
• flapping tremor
• constructional apraxia (can’t copy a five point star)

Question 3

Blood tests for liver failure