Acute liver failure?

Acute liver failure

Ms V, a 25-year-old girl from Maninagar, an associate professor in premier engineering college, a pHD student and a girl who is soon to get hitched to the man of his dreams. With loving parents, life could not get better for her.

Like most of the youngsters, she also used to have occasional outside food. Unfortunately, she developed vomiting, fever, muscle pain and she consulted her primary doctor. On investigations she was found to have hepatitis A virus.

Hepatitis A is the most common form of acute viral hepatitis worldwide. The virus most commonly gets transmitted by contaminated food and water. The infection is asymptomatic in 84% of children 1 and 2 years of age, 50% of children 3 and 4 years of age and 20 % of children over 5 years of age. But age increases, the severity of infection increases. The clinical illness starts with prodromal phase with symptoms of malaise, weakness, fever, anorexia and non-specific symptoms and lasts from a period of days to weeks. It is followed by an icteric phase lasting 2 to 4 weeks and is characterized by jaundice where the person turns yellow, the eyes and urine are prominently appearing yellow. In the final Convalescent phase of the disease, the virus is cleared, the patient recovers, and biomarkers become normal.A small proportion (

Dr. Pathik Parikh is the only hepatologist in gujarat to be trained Mumbai (India), London (UK), Florida (US) and Osaka (Japan)