The Complications of Acute Liver Failure

The first system that has to be thought of even though it's not necessarily intuitive is the neurological system. The second most common cause of death in acute liver failure after cerebral edema and herniation is sepsis itself. We should also worry about multi-organ failure which occurs in a rather cascading manner in the context of acute liver failure. These patients can develop typically an ischemic type of acute tubule necrosis. And we can certainly as well see as a consequence of impaired gluconeogenesis in the liver hypoglycemia occur.