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Acute on Chronic Liver Failure [PDF]

Dtsch Arztebl Int
Cirrhosis is the end stage of chronic liver disease. Cirrhosis causes portal hypertension, which, in turn, can lead to acute on chronic liver failure (ACLF), which is defined as acute decompensation combined with failure of the liver, coagulation system, kidneys, lungs, and/or circulatory system, or hepatic encephalopathy.This review is based on a ...
Girish V, Mousa OY, Syed K, John S.
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Acute-on-chronic liver failure [PDF]

Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, 2013
Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is an increasingly recognized distinct disease entity encompassing an acute deterioration of liver function in patients with chronic liver disease.
Tae Yeob Kim, Dong Joon Kim
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Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure—Current Management and Future Perspectives [PDF]

Biomedicines
Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a distinct clinical syndrome characterized by an acute decompensation of chronic liver disease in association with extrahepatic organ failure(s) and a high short-term mortality.
Benedict Allhoff, Christoph Neumann-Haefelin, Philipp Kasper   +2 more
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Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure: Steps Towards Consensus [PDF]

Diagnostics
Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a clinical syndrome characterized by organ failure and high short-term mortality. Since its first definition in 2013, many international organizations have defined this syndrome and, till now, there has been no ...
Loredana Gabriela Goran, Florina Alexandra Liţă (Cofaru), Carmen Fierbinţeanu-Braticevici   +2 more
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Effect of cirrhosis on prognosis in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

PeerJ
Background Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a prevalent complication among cirrhosis patients, whose high mortality is linked to cirrhosis combined with ACLF. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of systematic reviews.
Chunyang Dong, Xiaoxiao Liu, Dongshuai Zhang, Deyou Jiang   +3 more
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Incidence and Short‐Term Prognosis of Acute‐On‐Chronic Liver Failure Defined by Japanese Criteria: A Single‐Center Retrospective Cohort Study From Urban Japan [PDF]

JGH Open
Background and Aim Acute‐on‐chronic liver failure (ACLF) carries high short‐term mortality, but real‐world evidence under the Japanese ACLF criteria remains limited.
Hidehiro Kamezaki, Terunao Iwanaga, Takahiro Maeda, Junichi Senoo, Sadahisa Ogasawara, Shingo Nakamoto, Naoya Kato   +6 more
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Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure [PDF]

New England Journal of Medicine, 2020
Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a recently recognised and defined syndrome seen in patients with liver cirrhosis and carries a high short-term mortality in excess of 15% at 28 days. ACLF is defined by organ failures (OFs) and is distinct from simple 'acute decompensation' (AD) of cirrhosis.
Giovanni, Perricone, Andrea, Mancuso, Luca S, Belli   +2 more
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Acute versus acute-on-chronic liver failure: comparative analysis of clinical outcomes in Beijing, China. [PDF]

BMC Gastroenterol
Guo H, Yin N, Liu J, Li A.
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Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure [PDF]

Visceral Medicine, 2018
Trabalho Final do Curso de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa ...
Wolf O, Bechstein, Stefan, Zeuzem
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Acute-on-chronic liver failure [PDF]

The Lancet, 2015
Acute-on-chronic liver failure combines an acute deterioration in liver function in an individual with pre-existing chronic liver disease and hepatic and extrahepatic organ failures, and is associated with substantial short-term mortality. Common precipitants include bacterial and viral infections, alcoholic hepatitis, and surgery, but in more than 40%
William, Bernal, Rajiv, Jalan, Alberto, Quaglia, Kenneth, Simpson, Julia, Wendon, Andrew, Burroughs   +5 more
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