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Acute Liver Failure and Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure in COVID-19 Era
, 2022 Acute liver failure (ALF) and acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF), respectively, occur in patients with normal liver and patients with chronic liver diseases, including cirrhosis [...
Abe, Hayato +11 more
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Case Report: Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure: Making the Diagnosis between Infection and Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis [PDF]
, 2016 Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) represents a reversible syndrome associated with high short-term mortality, characterized by acute decompensation in patients with chronic liver disease and extrahepatic organ failure.
Sousa, José Manuel +4 more
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The Role of Monocytes and Macrophages in Acute and Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure
Frontiers in Immunology, 2018 Acute and acute-on-chronic liver failure (ALF and ACLF), though distinct clinical entities, are considered syndromes of innate immune dysfunction. Patients with ALF and ACLF display evidence of a pro-inflammatory state with local liver inflammation ...
Evangelos Triantafyllou +6 more
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Levels of von Willebrand factor antigen and von Willebrand factor cleaving protease (ADAMTS13) activity predict clinical events in chronic heart failure. [PDF]
, 2009 Decreased activity of ADAMTS13, the von Willebrand factor (VWF) cleaving protease, was recently reported in cardiovascular diseases and in hepatic failure.
Borgulya, Gábor +10 more
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Liver transplantation for acute-on-chronic liver failure from erythropoietic protoporphyria [PDF]
Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, 2012 Erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) is an inherited disorder of the heme metabolic pathway that is characterized by accumulation of protoporphyrin in the blood, erythrocytes, and tissues, and cutaneous manifestations of photosensitivity, all resulting ...
Pyoung-Jae Park +9 more
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Medicina, 2023 Both the Chronic Liver Failure Consortium (CLIF-C) organ failure score (OFs) and the CLIF-C acute-on-chronic-liver failure (ACLF) score (ACLFs) were developed for risk stratification and to predict mortality in patients with liver cirrhosis and ACLF ...
Michael Nagel +7 more
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Effect of acute on chronic liver failure over post-transplant survival
Annals of Hepatology, 2023 Introduction and Objectives: Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is associated with reduced short-term survival, and liver transplantation is frequently the only therapeutic option.
Carlos Benítez +18 more
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PLoS ONE, 2014 IntroductionAcute-on-chronic liver failure is characterized by acute deterioration of liver function in patients with compensated or decompensated, but stable, cirrhosis.
Roland Amathieu +9 more
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Critical Care, 2022 Organ dysfunction or overt failure is a commonplace event in the critically ill affecting up to 70% of patients during their stay in the ICU. The outcome depends on the resolution of impaired organ function, while a domino-like deterioration of organs ...
Aritz Perez Ruiz de Garibay +4 more
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Liver transplantation for acute-on-chronic liver failure [PDF]
, 2009 Purpose: To evaluate the outcome of liver transplantation for acute-on-chronic liver failure. Patients and methods: From November 1991 to December 2007, 517 patients underwent liver transplantation at Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong.
Lo, CM +17 more
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