Table of Contents
- Overview
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
- Images
Ischemic hepatitis; Shock liver
Treatment
Treatment depends on the cause. Low blood pressure and blood clots must be properly treated.
Support Groups
Expectations (prognosis)
Patients generally recover if the illness causing hepatic ischemia can be treated. Death from liver failure due to hepatic ischemia is very rare.
Complications
Liver failure is a rare but life-threatening complication.
Calling your health care provider
See your health care provider right away if you have persistent weakness or symptoms of
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Review Date: 07/07/2010
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of
General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine; George F. Longstreth, MD, Department of
Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, San
Diego, California. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical
Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
