Valproic Acid-Associated Liver Failure

Abstract

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, and other centers analyzed the records of 17 children undergoing liver transplantation (LT) for valproic acid-associated liver failure (VPA-ALF) and 98 with ALF caused by other drugs (non-VPA-drug-induced acute liver failure [DIALF].

Keywords

• mitochondrial disease
• heterogeneous missense
• aminotransferase