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Acute, Fatal Hepatic Failure Presenting with Psychiatric Symptoms

LEO R. ZACHARSKI, EDWARD M. LITIN, DONALD W. MULDER, and JAMES C. CAINAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 127, Number 3

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.3.382

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Mental disturbances are a common con-comitant of liver disease and are usually superimposed on gross evidence of liver failure. The authors describe two patients who had rapidly progressive and ultimately fatal liver disease but initially manifested only psychiatric symptoms. In neither was there any suggestion of liver disease in the history or in the clinical data until shortly before death.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 127 • Number 3 • September 1970

Pages: 382 - 386

PubMed: 5458608

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Published in print: September 1970

Published online: 1 April 2006

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LEO R. ZACHARSKI

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EDWARD M. LITIN

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DONALD W. MULDER

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JAMES C. CAIN

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Department of medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Affiliated Hospitals, Veterans Administration facility, White River Junction, Vt. 05001

Section of psychiatry, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation. Rochester, Minn.

Section of neurology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation. Rochester, Minn.

Section of medicine, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation. Rochester, Minn.

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Acute, Fatal Hepatic Failure Presenting with Psychiatric Symptoms

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