Case Report: Elastography-negative acute fatty liver of pregnancy diagnosed by histopathology and electron microscopy
Takuto Nosaka, Arisa Saito, Yu Akazawa, Kazuto Takahashi, Tatsushi Naito, Masahiro Ohtani, Yoshiaki Imamura, Sho Kudo, Makoto Orisaka, Yoshio Yoshida, Yasunari Nakamoto · 2026
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Takuto Nosaka reports a 2026 case of acute fatty liver of pregnancy that a common scan tool failed to show. A woman aged 29 years, pregnant for the first time, grew jaundiced at 33 weeks with liver, blood, and kidney problems. The rare disease can turn fatal fast, so an urgent cesarean birth was done.
Weeks later a stiffness scan tool read the liver fat level as normal. A liver sample told a different story, with tiny fat drops seen under both standard and electron scopes. Stains backed the finding. The case warns that the scan tool can miss this fat pattern and that tissue checks still matter.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Takuto Nosaka, Arisa Saito, Yu Akazawa, Kazuto Takahashi, Tatsushi Naito, Masahiro Ohtani, Yoshiaki Imamura, Sho Kudo, Makoto Orisaka, Yoshio Yoshida, Yasunari Nakamoto |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20132 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |