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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Genet Metab. 2019 Apr 12;127(2):117–121. doi: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2019.04.002

Table 1.

Percentage of pediatric acute liver failure attributed to inherited metabolic disease.

Age Metabolic liver disease (MLD) MLD mortality Indeterminate Ref
<90 d 28/148 (19%) 29% 56/148 (38%) [8]
<120 d 28/78 (36%) 8/28 (29%) 5/78 (6%) [9]
Infants (<12 m) 34/80 (43%) 14/34 (41%) 13/80 (16%) [10]
< 24 m (median 1.3 m) 18/34 (53%) 8/18 (44%) - [11]
<2 y 12/28 (43%) 3/12 (25%) 5/28 (18%) [12]
<3 y (median 12.5 m) 10/30 (33%) 7/10 (70%) 3/30 (10%) [13]
<18 y 14/109 (13%) 8/14 (57%) 16/109 (15%) [14]
0–18 y 36/348 (10%) 8/36 (22%) 169/348 (49%) [15]
0–17 y 15/97 (15%) 11/17 (65%) - [16]
Neonatal (<1 m) 3/17 (18%)* -
Infants (1–12 m) 7/22 (32%)
Early childhood (1–5 y) 3/33 (14%)
Late childhood (5–17 y) 2/36 (6%)**
0–18 y 25/215 (12%) - 68/215 (32%) [17]
Neonatal (<28 d) 5/42 (12%) 2/42 (5%)
Infants (29 d-1 y) 3/23 (13%) 8/23 (35%)
Child (1–12 y) 12/95 (13%) 41/95 (43%)
Adolescent (12–18 y) 5/55 (9%) 17/55 (31%)
*

excluding neonatal hemochromatosis;

**

both Wilson disease.