PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Charelle Manning
AU  - Hameed Rafiee
AU  - Syed Alam
TI  - Lessons of the month: Acute liver failure: a case close to the heart
AID  - 10.7861/clinmed.2020-1062
DP  - 2021 Mar 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - e234--e236
VI  - 21
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/21/2/e234.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/21/2/e234.full
SO  - Clin Med2021 Mar 01; 21
AB  - The differential diagnosis of an acute liver injury is extremely broad and can often change following initial investigations. We describe the case of a 54-year-old woman whose liver function derangement was initially attributed to alcohol excess, but in fact turned out to be cardiac in origin. We describe the underlying mechanisms and features of cardiac-related liver injury, and how the pattern of liver tests alongside appropriate imaging can help obtain the diagnosis.