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Plasma Glutamine Concentrations in Liver Failure. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Higher than normal plasma glutamine concentration at admission to an intensive care unit is associated with an unfavorable outcome. Very high plasma glutamine levels are sometimes seen in both acute and chronic liver failure.
Gunnel Helling, Staffan Wahlin, Marie Smedberg, Linn Pettersson, Inga Tjäder, Åke Norberg, Olav Rooyackers, Jan Wernerman   +7 more
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Critical care hepatology: definitions, incidence, prognosis and role of liver failure in critically ill patients

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, Andreas Kortgen, Julia Leonhardt, Alexander Zipprich, Michael Bauer   +4 more
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Alterations in the Gut Microbiota and Hepatitis-B-Virus Infection in Southern Chinese Patients With Coexisting Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus

Frontiers in Medicine, 2021
Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection has been reported to affect the bacterial characteristics in the host. We aimed to elucidate the compositional and functional characteristics of the microbiota in southern Chinese patients with coexistent HBV
Weijia Han, Weijia Han, Chunyang Huang, Yali Ji, Ling Zhou, Jinjun Chen, Jinjun Chen, Jinjun Chen, Jinlin Hou   +8 more
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Serum 1H-NMR metabolomic fingerprints of acute-on-chronic liver failure in intensive care unit patients with alcoholic cirrhosis.

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, Mohamed N Triba, Pierre Nahon, Nadia Bouchemal, Walid Kamoun, Hakim Haouache, Jean-Claude Trinchet, Philippe Savarin, Laurence Le Moyec, Gilles Dhonneur   +9 more
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Imatinib-induced fulminant liver failure in chronic myeloid leukemia: role of liver transplant and second-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2018
Background There is a worldwide problem of acute liver failure and mortality associated with remaining on the waiting for a liver transplant. In this study, we highlight results published in recent years by leading transplant centers in evaluating ...
Lucas Souto Nacif, Daniel R. Waisberg, Rafael Soares Pinheiro, Fabiana Roberto Lima, Vinicius Rocha-Santos, Wellington Andraus, Luiz Carneiro D’Albuquerque   +6 more
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Acute kidney injury in hospitalized cirrhotic patients: Risk factors, type of kidney injury, and survival

JGH Open, 2021
Background and Aim Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication of chronic liver disease (CLD). We performed a prospective study to evaluate the risk factors and spectrum of AKI among decompensated cirrhosis (DC) patients and the impact of AKI on ...
Chitta Ranjan Khatua, Saroj Kanta Sahu, Dinesh Meher, Gautam Nath, Shivaram Prasad Singh   +4 more
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Liver Progenitor Cells in Massive Hepatic Necrosis—How Can a Patient Survive Acute Liver Failure?

Biomolecules, 2022
Massive hepatic necrosis is the most severe lesion in acute liver failure, yet a portion of patients manage to survive and recover from this high-risk and harsh disease syndrome. The mechanisms underlying recovery remain largely unknown to date.
Tao Lin, Rilu Feng, Roman Liebe, Hong-Lei Weng   +3 more
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Dynamic analysis of acute deterioration in chronic liver disease patients using modified quick sequential organ failure assessment [PDF]

Clinical and Molecular Hepatology
Background/Aims Quick sequential organ failure assessment (qSOFA) is believed to identify patients at risk of poor outcomes in those with suspected infection.
Do Seon Song, Hee Yeon Kim, Young Kul Jung, Tae Hyung Kim, Hyung Joon Yim, Eileen L Yoon, Ki Tae Suk, Jeong-ju Yoo, Sang Gyune Kim, Moon Young Kim, Young Chang, Soung Won Jeong, Jae Young Jang, Sung-Eun Kim, Jung-Hee Kim, Jung Gil Park, Won Kim, Jin Mo Yang, Dong Joon Kim, Korean Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure (KACLiF) study group, Ashok Kumar Choudhury, Vinod Arora, Shiv Kumar Sarin, APASL ACLF Research Consortium (AARC) for APASL ACLF working party   +23 more
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Dengue Infection: A Hidden Cause of Acute Insult in a Case of Acute on Chronic Liver Failure in Endemic Area

Prague Medical Report, 2020
Acute on chronic liver failure (ACLF) can be precipitated by several factors such as bacterial infection, alcohol intake, viral hepatitis, surgery, etc. Identification of precipitating factor is an important part of management of ACLF.
Jaynata Paul
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Acute decompensation and acute-on-chronic liver failure

Exploration of Digestive Diseases
Acute decompensation is defined as the development of ascites, bleeding due to portal hypertension, jaundice, or hepatic encephalopathy in the presence of known or unknown chronic liver disease.
Sencan Acar
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