My son died at the age of 36 in the USA in September 2023. He had been alcohol dependent but had finally managed to stop drinking a month before, and his liver results were steadily improving . He woke up one Sunday bright yellow but feeling fine and it took his wife 48 hours to persuade him to go to the hospital, where he was immediately admitted. I don’t have access to many of the medical test results but it seems his bilirubin levels were increasing although liver scans didn’t show any abnormalities. They slowed down his bilirubin increases and sent him home on the Saturday with instructions on healthy eating and exercise, which he followed. The following Thursday he had a major nose bleed and we persuaded him to go back to the hospital to get it checked out. We were told we were over reacting but they would do blood tests anyway- and 20 minutes later he was admitted as an emergency as his kidneys had failed over the intervening 5 days. He was then treated for end stage liver disease and passed away 8 days later.
Is this a normal time period (23 days) for the disease to run, and is kidney failure something that happens? Someone has suggested that it may have been undiagnosed sepsis rather than liver disease and now I just don’t know what to think. Any thoughts / advice would be so helpful.
Thank you.
Decompensated Liver/End stage Liver Disease
This time last year
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My husbands results
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