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Fulminant hepatic failure and shigella bacteremia

Abidin Z 1 , Iyngkaran N 2 , Puthucheary SD 3

Affiliations 

  • 1 Zainal Abidin, MRCP, AM, Departments of Pediatrics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Correspondence to: Z Abidin, The Children's Medical Center, Wisma Bendahara, MALACCA
  • 2 N lyngkaran, MRCP, Departments of Pediatrics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 3 S D Puthucheary, Dip Cact, Departments of Medical Microbiology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Med J Malaysia, 1983 Jun;38(2):112-3.
PMID: 6353185

Abstract

A three and a half year old boy with shigellosis developed fulminant hepatic failure. The hepatic derangements rapidly improved over a period of two weeks after treatment of the shigellosis with parenteral gentamicin. We believe this is the first documented report of fulminant hepatic failure due to shigella sepsis.

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