What are the symptoms of acute fatty liver during pregnancy?

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Because fatty liver is caused by a variety of reasons caused by excessive accumulation of fat in liver cells, which is a serious threat to people's health. Experts said that although the disease is very harmful, but also belongs to the second largest liver disease, and common fatty liver can be divided into many types, including acute fatty liver in pregnancy is also common. Let's take a look at the symptoms of acute fatty liver during pregnancy.

What are the symptoms of acute fatty liver during pregnancy?

Acute fatty liver of pregnancy, also known as obstetric acute pseudo yellow liver atrophy, has a sudden onset and rapid changes. Its clinical manifestations are similar to fulminant hepatitis. Once it occurs, it can endanger the life of patients. It is a unique fatal rare disease in late pregnancy.

At the beginning of onset, there were only persistent nausea, vomiting, fatigue, epigastric pain or headache, and jaundice deepened a few days or a week later.

Abdominal pain can be limited to the right upper abdomen, also can be diffuse, often accompanied by hypertension, proteinuria, edema, a few patients can appear transient polyuria and thirst symptoms. If the patient does not give birth and the condition continues to develop, severe hypoglycemia, hypoproteinemia, coagulation dysfunction, hepatic encephalopathy and other complications may occur, which may cause death in a short time. Because the time of treatment of this disease is closely related to the prognosis, it should be diagnosed and treated as soon as possible, liver puncture should be performed as early as possible, and pregnancy should be terminated as soon as possible.

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If a woman has fatty liver during pregnancy, she must terminate the pregnancy before she can recover. At the same time, the hormone changes caused by pregnancy will cause the disorder of fatty acid metabolism. At the same time, there have been many cases in recent years, so the emergence of this disease is likely to be caused by poisoning, or improper use of drugs, malnutrition.