Casting a Wider NET: An Unusual Cause of Acute Liver Failure in a Pregnant Patient.

Publication/Presentation Date

11-1-2020

Abstract

We present a case patient in her second trimester of pregnancy who developed acute liver failure from metastatic neuroendocrine tumor (NET). Although she underwent prompt induction of a non-viable fetus due to initial concerns of hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelet count syndrome, her liver function continued to deteriorate postpartum. She was subsequently transferred to our institution in order to undergo further evaluation that included a transjugular liver biopsy and subsequent diagnosis of high-grade NET. She was given salvage carboplatin-based chemotherapy, as she was not a liver transplant candidate. Unfortunately, the patient expired from cardiovascular collapse as a component of multiorgan failure.

Volume

65

Issue

11

First Page

3102

Last Page

3105

ISSN

1573-2568

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

PubMedID

32671591

Department(s)

Department of Surgery

Document Type

Article

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