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Acute-on chronic liver failure

Journal of Hepatology, 2012
Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is an increasingly recognised entity encompassing an acute deterioration of liver function in patients with cirrhosis, which is usually associated with a precipitating event and results in the failure of one or more organs and high short term mortality.
Jalan, Rajiv, Gines, Pere, Olson, Jody C, Mookerjee, Rajeshwar P, Moreau, Richard, Garcia-Tsao, Guadalupe, Arroyo, Vicente, Kamath, Patrick S   +7 more
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Determination of HMGB1 in hepatitis B virus-related acute-on-chronic liver failure patients with acute kidney injury: Early prediction and prognostic implications

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2023
Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent complication in patients with hepatitis B virus-related acute-on-chronic liver failure (HBV-ACLF) and is associated with high rates of mortality. We aimed to estimate serum high mobility group protein 1
Yu Liu, Yu Liu, Wei Yuan, Miao Fang, Hongying Guo, Xin Zhang, Xue Mei, Yuyi Zhang, Longshan Ji, Yating Gao, Jiefei Wang, Zhiping Qian, Man Li, Yueqiu Gao, Yueqiu Gao   +14 more
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The molecular adsorbent recirculating system as a liver support system. Summary of Mexican experience

Annals of Hepatology, 2014
Aim. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of the molecular absorbent recirculating system (MARS) on patients with acute liver failure (ALF) and liver failure with cirrhosis (AoCLF) as well as in cholestatic patients with intractable pruritus ...
Laura Esthela Cisneros-Garza, Ma. del Rosario Muñoz-Ramírez, Linda Elsa Muñoz-Espinoza, José Antonio Velarde Ruiz Velasco, Rosalba Moreno-Alcántar, Eduardo Marín-López, Nahum Méndez-Sánchez   +6 more
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Liver transplantation for acute-on-chronic liver failure [PDF]

Hepatology International, 2009
To evaluate the outcome of liver transplantation for acute-on-chronic liver failure.From November 1991 to December 2007, 517 patients underwent liver transplantation at Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong. Among them, 149 had acute-on-chronic liver failure as defined in the recent Asian Pacific Association for the Study of Liver Consensus Meeting.
Lam, BK, Chan, SC, Chan, AC, Fan, ST, Lo, CM, Liu, CL, Ng, KK, Yong, BH, Chiu, A   +8 more
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Liver Transplantation for Acute on Chronic Liver Failure [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology, 2017
Acute-on chronic liver failure (ACLF) is defined as acute insult on previous liver disease that causes sudden worsening of liver functions.ACLF is characterized by high incidence of organ failure and prognosis is remarkably worse than patients with cirrhosis. Incidence of organ failures is very high despite best medical care and timely liver transplant
Narendra S. Choudhary, Neeraj Saraf, Sanjiv Saigal, Arvinder S. Soin   +3 more
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Liver transplantation for acute-on-chronic liver failure

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology, 2020
Acute-on-chronic liver failure (AoCLF) represents a newly defined entity in patients with liver disease leading to multiple organ failures and increased mortality. To date, no universally accepted definition exists, and different academic societies developed guidelines on the early diagnosis and classification of AoCLF.
Dana Tomescu, Mihai Popescu, biancofiore giandomenico   +2 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, Evangelos Triantafyllou, Kevin J. Woollard, Mark J. W. McPhail, Charalambos G. Antoniades, Lucia A. Possamai, Lucia A. Possamai   +6 more
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Validation of the CLIF-C OF Score and CLIF-C ACLF Score to Predict Transplant-Free Survival in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis and Concomitant Need for Intensive Care Unit Treatment

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, Ruben Westphal, Max Hilscher, Peter R. Galle, Jörn M. Schattenberg, Oliver Schreiner, Christian Labenz, Marcus Alexander Wörns   +7 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, Shin Hwang, Young-Il Choi, Young-Dong Yu, Gil-Chun Park, Sung-Won Jung, Sam-Youl Yoon, Gi-Won Song, Tae-Yong Ha, Sung-Gyu Lee   +9 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, Jorge Arnold, Verónica Cambindo, Fernanda Schoenfeldt, Alejandra Cancino, Samuel Ibáñez, Catalina Grandy, Paola Hunfan, Jorge González, Catalina Guerra, Esteban Godoy, Verónica Araneda, Constanza Mollo, Jaime Poniachik, Alvaro Urzúa, Máximo Cattaneo, Juan Pablo Roblero, Ilan Oppenheimer, Vicente Pizarro   +18 more
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