Liver Transplantation for Treatment of Acute Liver Failure Due to Heat Stroke

Liver Transplantation for Treatment of Acute Liver Failure Due to Heat Stroke

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Miguel Ángel Suárez-Muñoz
Liver Transplant Unit, University Hospital Regional, Malaga, Spain

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Acute liver failure is an infrequent but serious complication of heat stroke damage. Management of these patients is mainly supportive, but in some cases liver transplantation may be the only chance for cure. We present the case of a young soldier who underwent emergency liver transplantation due to exertion heat stroke.

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Case Report
Publication history
Received: Sat 22, Aug 2020
Accepted: Thu 03, Sep 2020
Published: Wed 16, Sep 2020
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© 2023 Miguel Ángel Suárez-Muñoz. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2020.09.12