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LIVER DISEASE, LIVER FAILURE, UNSPECIFIC [DD]

LIVER DISEASE, LIVER FAILURE, UNSPECIFIC [DD]
unspecific liver disease/liver failure:
-infectious: Hepatitis A, B, C, Parvovirus B19, Echovirus 9, Coxsackie virus, Adenovirus, HSV, EBV, CMV, Rubella, Syphilis, Toxoplasma, Human Herpas virus 6)
-adverse drug reactions (both toxic and hepatitic)
- hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
- infiltrative diseases
- irradiation damage
- long-term TPN
- vascular anomalies/tumors (hemangioma and arteriovenous malformation )
- neonatal lupus erythomatosus
- hepatic neuroblastoma
- Budd-Chiari-Syndrome
- progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (Byler)
- hereditary fructose intolerance
- inborn errors of oxidative phosphorylation
- neonatal hemochromatosis
- tyrosinemia
- alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency
- Wilsons disease
- galactosemia
- alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency
- Zellweger syndrome
- Niemann Pick disease type C
- Glycogen storage disease type IV
- mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome
Laboratory findingsMethionine normal/inc (plasma)
N-Acetyltryptophane inc (urine)
 N-Acetyltyrosine inc (urine)
    Ammonia inc (blood)
    bleeding time dec (blood)
    DL-Kynurenin normal/inc (urine)
    L-Lactic acid normal/inc (blood)
    L-Lactic acid inc (urine)
    pH normal/dec (blood)
    Transaminases (ASAT/ALAT) normal/inc (serum)
Symptomsencephalopathy
liver failure
    ascites
    bleeding tendencies, hemorrhages
    Coagulopathy/Coagulation factors
    coma
    early death
    hepatomegaly (large liver)
    hyperammonemia
    hypotension
    jaundice
    lactic acidosis
    onset, adolescent
    onset, childhood
    onset, infancy
    onset, neonatal
    Organic acids, urine
    pruritus
    seizures
    teleangiectasia
    thromboembolism