Yellow phosphorus poisoning and living donor liver transplant - A case report

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• acute liver failure
• liver transplant
• ratol