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Differential diagnosis

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Differential diagnosis includes:

  • haemorrhagic shock and encephalopathy. Differentiation is by measurement of ammonia - very high in Reye's syndrome, only slightly raised in haemorrhagic shock and encephalopathy, and liver biopsy, which invariably shows fatty infiltration in Reye's syndrome, rarely in haemorrhagic shock and encephalopathy

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