850 Citations
Complications in acute liver failure: managing hepatic encephalopathy and cerebral oedema
- Medicine
- 2014
An overview of hepatic encephalopathy and the management of cerebral oedema in this group of patients is presented, examining both current medical and nursing strategies.
Acute Liver Failure
- MedicineHPB surgery : a world journal of hepatic, pancreatic and biliary surgery
- 1999
The causes and clinical manifestations of acute liver failure are outlined, current approaches to patient care are discussed, and rates of survival have improved substantially in recent years through advances in critical care management and the use of emergency liver transplantation.
Acute liver failure.
- MedicineThe New England journal of medicine
- 2014
The causes and clinical manifestations of acute liver failure are outlined, current approaches to patient care are discussed, and rates of survival have improved substantially in recent years through advances in critical care management and the use of emergency liver transplantation.
Acute liver failure.
- MedicineThe New England journal of medicine
- 2013
The causes and clinical manifestations of acute liver failure are outlined, current approaches to patient care are discussed, and rates of survival have improved substantially in recent years through advances in critical care management and the use of emergency liver transplantation.
Study of Aetiology, Complications, Prognostic Factors and Mortality Predictors in Acute Liver Failure in a Tertiary Care Hospital of North India
- Medicine
- 2020
Clinicians in developing countries and clinicians there, should know prognostic factors of ALF before managing a patient of acute liver failure, because different geographical regions have different aetiology for ALF, hence different prognostic Factors.
Management of acute liver failure. Clinical guideline from the Catalan Society of Digestology
- MedicineGastroenterología y Hepatología (English Edition)
- 2019
Management of acute liver failure. Clinical guideline from the Catalan Society of Digestology.
- MedicineGastroenterologia y hepatologia
- 2019
Aetiology and outcome of acute liver failure.
- MedicineHPB : the official journal of the International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association
- 2009
Liver transplantation, when performed for acute liver failure, has good long-term survival and paracetamol overdose was the most common cause of acute Liver failure.
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- MedicineHepatology
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Hepatic transplantation, successfully performed in one patient, would appear to offer the best chance of survival for the majority of these patients and the patients given corticosteroids did not have a statistically significant improvement in survival.
Early indicators of prognosis in fulminant hepatic failure.
- Medicine, BiologyGastroenterology
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Fulminant and subfulminant liver failure: definitions and causes.
- MedicineSeminars in liver disease
- 1986
Unless hepatic transplantation proves to be applicable in FHF of many etiologic diagnosis may continue to have important therapeutic indications in at least some cases with this syndrome.
Aetiology and prognosis of fulminant viral hepatitis in Japan: A multicentre study
- MedicineJournal of gastroenterology and hepatology
- 1991
In 236 patients with fulminant viral hepatitis (FVH), type B (FBH) was most common (47.5%), followed by non‐A non‐B hepatitis (FNANB, 44.9%) and hepatitis type A (FAH, 7.6%). The survival rate was…
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- Medicine, BiologyGut
- 1980
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