Kantoku Nagakawa, Akihiko Soyama, Takanobu Hara, Hajime Matsushima, Hajime Imamura, Takayuki Tanaka, Michi Morita, Sakaya Kuba, Tomohiko Adachi, Masaaki Hidaka, Hisamitsu Miyaaki, Satoru Akazawa, Ichiro Horie, Motohiro Sekino, Tetsuya Hara, Shinji Okano, Kazuhiko Nakao, Susumu Eguchi
BACKGROUND: Thyroid storm can be complicated by liver dysfunction, which may occasionally progress to acute liver failure. We herein report a case of acute liver failure following thyroid storm that was treated with living donor liver transplantation after resuscitation from cardiopulmonary arrest. CASE REPORT: The patient was a woman in her 40 s who had been diagnosed with an abnormal thyroid function. She suffered from fatigue and vomiting, and was found to have consciousness disorder, a fever, and tachycardia with a neck mass...
December 1, 2023: Surgical Case Reports