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An unusual cause of fulminant hepatic failure: Metastatic infiltration by infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the breast
Una causa inusual de fallo hepático fulminante: infiltración metastásica por carcinoma ductal infiltrante de mama
Francisco Javier Pardilla Moraledaa,
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fjpm95@gmail.com

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, Rosario Serrano Pardob, Lourdes del Campo del Valc, Luisa García-Bueya
a Servicio de Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS-IP), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
b Servicio de Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS-IP), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
c Servicio de Radiodiagnóstico, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS-IP), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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consistent with metastasis&#44; as well as alterations in the left breast suggestive of malignancy &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>&#41;&#46; Mammography showed a left breast nodule suspicious for malignancy with skin thickening in relation to oedema and&#47;or inflammatory carcinoma&#44; without suspicious lymph nodes &#40;BI-RADS 5&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Progress continued to be poor&#44; and as liver transplantation was impossible due to massive metastatic invasion&#44; the patient died 10 days after admission&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0015">Discussion</span><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We have presented a case of fulminant hepatic failure&#44; most commonly caused worldwide by hepatotropic virus infections&#44; and by drug toxicity specifically in the West&#46; Less common are ischaemic hepatitis&#44; 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although uncommon&#44; it should be considered in the differential diagnosis in patients without evidence of viral hepatitis or consumption of hepatotoxic drugs and with non-specific findings in imaging tests&#44; particularly if there is a history of cancer&#46; In addition&#44; it can behave as a &#8220;pseudocirrhosis&#8221;&#44; in which the desmoplastic reaction induced by the invasive cancer leads to collagenisation of the liver parenchyma&#44; resulting in hepatocyte atrophy&#44; which induces acute liver failure and signs of portal hypertension&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0010"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a></p><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It is therefore necessary to maintain a high index of suspicion&#44; and in these cases a pathology study is required to reach a definitive diagnosis&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> although in patients with heterogeneous livers on ultrasound it is important to perform other imaging tests beforehand&#44; preferably with contrast&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0020">Ethical considerations</span><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">This work did not involve the use of human subjects&#44; as the information has simply been obtained in a completely anonymous manner from a patient&#8217;s medical records following the protocols of our work centre on the publication of patient data&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0025">Funding</span><p id="par0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">No funding was received for this study&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0030">Conflicts of interest</span><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest&#46;</p></span></span>"
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