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A Report of Toxin-Induced Graft Injury Following Liver Transplantation for Yellow Phosphorus Poisoning.

Sandeep JasperAbdul Rahman HakeemMukul VijDeepti SachanAkila RajakumarDinesh JothimaniIlankumaran KaliamoorthyMettu Srinivas ReddyMohamed Rela
Published in: Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) (2021)
Poisoning due to ingestion of yellow phosphorus (YP) containing rodenticide accounts for 17% of all poisoning in India and 0.3% in the USA.(1,2) YP disrupts oxidative phosphorylation and protein synthesis causing acute liver failure (ALF), renal injury, myocarditis, bone-marrow suppression. 70% of ingested toxin rapidly accumulates in liver, with smaller quantities in the heart, kidneys, bones, adrenals, gut.(3) Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) has been used anecdotally to reduce the toxin load.(4,5) Liver transplantation (LT) is life-saving for patients progressing to ALF.(2).
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