Publications by authors named "Hanako Yamazaki"

Acute pancreatitis is an uncommon occurrence in acute liver failure. Furthermore, such cases are rarely complicated by parenchymal hemorrhages. Herein, we report the case of a 69-year-old male patient with multiple pancreatic parenchymal hemorrhages concomitant with acute liver failure.

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Background: Portal-systemic encephalopathy is a hepatic encephalopathy caused by portosystemic shunts and is a poor prognostic factor for cirrhotic patients. Percutaneous transhepatic obliteration is an option for controlling portal-systemic encephalopathy. We report two cases of portal-systemic encephalopathy that were successfully controlled with percutaneous transhepatic obliteration.

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