Mortality associated with ischaemic hepatitis
作者:
Peter E. Hickman,
Julia M. Potter,
期刊:
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine
(WILEY Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 20,
issue 1
页码: 32-34
ISSN:0004-8291
年代: 1990
DOI:10.1111/j.1445-5994.1990.tb00366.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: Ischaemic hepatitis;aspartate aminotransferase circulatory failure;hypotension;left ventricular failure
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractTwenty‐nine patients of 18,000 inpatient admissions over a six‐month period developed ischaemic hepatitis accompanied by peak aspartate aminotransferase (AST‐EC 2.6.1.1) activity greater than 1,000 U/L. Seventeen of these 29 patients died either during or shortly after the episode of ischaemic hepatitis, with an overall mortality of 58.6%. Mortality was not due in any of the cases to the hepatitis but rather the underlying cause. Ischaemic hepatitis was the commonest cause of an AST activity greater than 1,000 U/L in this hospital population (29 of 52 patients i.e. 56%). This condition is more common than generally appreciated and is associated with a poor prog
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