Acute liver failure is responsible for severe gastrointestinal bleeding. Doctor prescribes medications to control and stop bleeding. Sometimes, your liver is damaged extensively and all such medications or treatments are unable to reverse the damage.
Treatments and Medications for Acute Liver Failure
New York (USA), June 24, 2013
Treatments Options and Medications for Acute Liver Failure
Medications to control acute liver failure complications include:
Treating Severe Bleeding: Acute liver failure is responsible for severe gastrointestinal bleeding. Doctor prescribes medications to control and stop bleeding. If you lose lot of blood, you should undergo blood transfusion.
Treating Infections: If acute liver failure is due to infection, doctor tests your urine and blood to determine extent of infection. You follow prescribed dosage of medications. If infection and discomfort persists, further blood and urine tests are done and doctor advises next course of treatment.
Removing Excess Fluid from Brain: Acute liver failure may increase cranial pressure. This causes accumulation of fluid in brain. Doctor prescribes medications to reduce fluid accumulation and restore normal brain tissue set-up.
Medications for Overdose or Poisoning: Poisoning due to toxic substances and acetaminophen overdose leads to acute liver failure. Doctor prescribes medications to treat such overdose or poisoning.
If medications do not produce desired results, immediate hospitalization in intensive care unit with close observation is of paramount importance to treat acute liver failure. Supportive treatment in the form of adequate nutrition, mechanical ventilation, intracranial pressure monitoring in severe encephalopathy, and optimization of fluid balance is mandatory. Often, most acute liver failure patients recover with such supportive treatments.
Liver Transplantation: Sometimes, your liver is damaged extensively and all such medications or treatments are unable to reverse the damage. In such cases, liver transplantation is the only treatment option. In cases where liver failure is due to prolonged deterioration of liver, doctor initially tries to salvage whatever part of liver is healthy. However, if this is not possible, liver transplantation is the only option. A surgeon removes your damaged liver and replaces it with a healthy liver obtained from a donor at a liver transplant center. Mortality improves. If acute liver failure is due to brain death, septic shock, multi-organ failure, alcohol or illicit drug abuse, liver transplantation is not advised.
Liver Dialysis: This is gradually evolving as a treatment option for acute liver failure. Specific measures improve and restore normal liver functioning even in very severe cases of acute liver failure. It is therefore not necessary to undergo liver transplantation. However, it is still in nascent stages.
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