Acut liver failure of unknown origin

Acute liver failure (ALF) is a rare, often life-threatening syndrome. The severe progressive liver function damage may develop to encephalopathy, coagulopathy and jaundice. Other complications include cerebral oedema, sepsis, and multiple organ failure. The most two frequent causes are paracetamol and Hepatitis A and B, however hepatotoxic drugs, toxins, other viral infections, metabolic or autoimmune diseases, narcotics, herbal drugs are also implicated. In 20% of the cases etiology remains unknown. Study case: A 23 year old female, with no past history of liver disease. Recently she drank mallow tea as slimmin…