vascular causes of acute liver failure
Last reviewed 01/2018
- cardiac causes of hepatic ischaemia, for example:
- myocardial infarction
- cardiomyopathy
- pulmonary embolism
- sinusoidal obstruction has been described in:
- gastric carcinoma
- breast cancer
- carcinoid syndrome
- oat cell carcinoma
- amyloidosis
- leukaemia
- hepatic venous outflow obstruction, for example:
- Budd-Chiari syndrome
- veno-occlusive disease