EM@3AM: Liver Transplant Complications

A 32-year-old female with a history of hypertension and autoimmune hepatitis status post liver transplant 6 weeks prior on tacrolimus and mycophenolate presents to the ED with abdominal discomfort. For the past two days, she describes worsening pain and intermittent vomiting. She came today because her sister is a nurse who noticed her eyes were yellow. She denies fever or a new rash. She has been taking her medications as prescribed. Vital signs: HR 118, BP 103/68, RR 20, T 99.8. On exam the patient is tachycardic with RUQ pain to palpation and scleral icterus. LFTs are in the thousands.

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