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Case Reports
. 2004 Feb 10;112(2):230-2.
doi: 10.1016/s0301-2115(03)00364-6.

Acute hepatic failure in pregnancy

Delia M Paternoster  1 , Pier Francesco Gerace, Francesca Manganelli, Patrizia Boccagni, Umberto Cillo, Davide D'Amico
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Acute hepatic failure in pregnancy

Delia M Paternoster et al. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. .

Abstract

Severe liver dysfunction in late pregnancy is an unusual but dramatic event because it can progress very rapidly to fulminating disease and also because two lives, that of the mother and foetus, are involved. We report a descriptive study of a pregnant woman presenting with severe liver dysfunction.

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