Definitions for "Fulminant Hepatic Failure"
A sudden onset of liver failure in a previously healthy person.
a syndrome that occurs in a previously healthy patient who develops massive acute liver injury and rapid clinical deterioration with coagulopathy and hepatic encephalopathy within 2 weeks (or 8 weeks by an alternative criteria) of the onset of symptoms or jaundice.
Acute liver failure resulting from some injury to the liver resulting in the development of hepatic encephalopathy within six weeks. This form of liver failure is associated with a high rate of death.