Fulminant hepatic failure due to secondary amyloidosis

Abstract

Systemic amyloidosis frequently involves liver, however, clinically apparent liver disease is rare and, if observed, is usually mild. Rarely, primary amyloidosis may present with evidence of portal hypertension or hepatic failure. Although secondary amyloidosis may involve the liver and rarely causes liver pathologies such as cholestatic hepatitis and portal hypertension, to our knowledge, hepatic failure due to secondary amyloidosis has been reported once before. Herein, we presented a woman with subacute fulminant hepatic failure who had no known history of a chronic disease other than episodes of urinary tract infection, and secondary amyloidosis was diagnosed with post-mortem liver biopsy.