Difference between revisions of "Category:Hepatoxicity, Acute"

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-==Acute hepatoxicity==
-Almost invariably causes widespread haemorrhages in the body due to excessive consumption of the clotting factors in the damaged [[Liver - Anatomy & Physiology|liver]] coupled with failure to produce these factors by the damaged [[Liver - Anatomy & Physiology|liver]].
-===[[Blue-green Algae]]===
-===Iron===
-*the use of iron-dextran compounds to combat anaemia
-*common in piglets which are deficient in Vitamin E
-*produces massive necrosis in the [[Liver - Anatomy & Physiology|liver]]
-===Cresols===
-*from tarred piggeries and clay pigeons
-*produce massive necrosis in the [[Liver - Anatomy & Physiology|liver]] of pigs
-====Clinical====
-*jaundice
-*weakness
-*coma
-*death
-NB: former use of carbon tetrachloride as an anthelmintic and phosphorous as a rodenticide has produced [[Liver - Anatomy & Physiology|liver]] necrosis
-[[Category:Liver - Toxic Pathology]]