Did the patient have Reye syndrome?

摘要

Dr. Qag and his colleagues should be congratulated for their success in performing emergency auxiliary partial orthotopic liver transplantation in a six-month-old baby with acute liver failure, which was published recently in the Journal (2010; 52: 662-664). Reye syndrome (RS) was first described by Reye et al. in Australia in 1963 by morphologic criteria as microvesicular steatosis without inflammation, where aspirin was not introduced. Actually, IRS is an acquired mitochondriopathy .