LIVER COMPLICATIONS OF THE HELLP-SYNDROME - AN INDICATION FOR LIVER-TRANSPLANTATION AS AN EMERGENCY

Three patients were treated suffering from a severe HELLP-syndrome. Th e problems as far as the diagnostic and therapy are concerned are disc ussed. All three patients had to be on in an emergency state. The oper ations were performed due to acute and severe abdominal bleeding. Two of the patients needed liver transplantation as an emergency procedure , one of them died after hepatectomy waiting for a graft. Another one died seven weeks after successful transplantation due to prolonged sep sis. The third patient is more than one year after transplantation ali ve and doing well.