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| Year : 2020 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 349-351 |
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Yellow phosphorus poisoning and living donor liver transplant - A case report
Rakesh Babu, Kishore Kanianchalil, Anish Kumar, Rajneesh Rajan, Sajeesh Sahadevan, Rajesh Nambiar
Department of Liver Transplant Anesthesia, ASTER MIMS Hospital, Calicut, Kerala, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Rakesh Babu
Consultant Liver transplant Anesthesia, Aster MIMS Hospital, Calicut - 673 016, Kerala
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/2470-7511.305423
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Acute liver failure due to yellow phosphorus is common in south India. Patients usually have an early asymptomatic phase and a rapidly progressing symptomatic phase. Early intensive care management can delay the progression to fulminant hepatic failure.Liver transplant is the only definitive management once fulminant hepatic failure sets in.
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