Safety of High-Volume Plasmapheresis in Children With Acute Liver Failure.

Objectives: Paediatric acute liver failure (P-ALF) is a rare condition and is associated with a high mortality rate. Management of P-ALF aims to stabilise vital organ functions and to remove circulating toxins and provide vital plasma factors that are lacking. High-volume plasmapheresis (HVP) removes protein-bound substances and improves survival in adult ALF.

Rapidly progressing HELLP syndrome and massive liver destruction in a 22-year-old female pregnant with monochorionic diamniotic gemelli.

Haemolysis Elevated Liver parameters and Low Platelets (HELLP) syndrome can present with abdominal pain as the only symptom. It can be rapid with failure of multiple organs and is a cause of maternal death. A 22-year-old female pregnant with twins contacted her local hospital due to abdominal pain.

Pre-eclampsia and risk of later kidney disease: nationwide cohort study.

Objective: To investigate associations between pre-eclampsia and later risk of kidney disease.

Design: Nationwide register based cohort study.

Setting: Denmark.

Lower short-term mortality in ICU patients on chronic dialysis than in those requiring acute dialysis.

Background: In ICU patients, we aimed to describe the outcomes of those with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) as compared to those requiring acute renal replacement therapy (RRT).

Methods: Retrospective analysis of all adult patients admitted to a general, university hospital ICU from 2005 to 2012. ESRD was defined as use of chronic RRT >90 days prior to admission.

[Plasmapheresis in the treatment of acute pancreatitis associated with severe hypertriglyceridaemia].

Acute pancreatitis can be caused by hypertriglyceridaemia. The treatment includes lowering of the blood triglyceride levels. We present a case of a 40-year-old woman who was admitted in this condition.

Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis: suspected causative role of gadodiamide used for contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging.

Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis is a new, rare disease of unknown cause that affects patients with renal failure. Single cases led to the suspicion of a causative role of gadodiamide that is used for magnetic resonance imaging. This study therefore reviewed all of the authors' confirmed cases of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (n = 13) with respect to clinical characteristics, gadodiamide exposure, and subsequent clinical course.