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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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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 +2 more
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The brain in acute on chronic liver failure [PDF]
Metabolic Brain Disease, 2014 Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a newly defined clinical entity with significant morbidity and mortality (~40-90% at 1 year dependent on need for organ support at presentation). It defines a presentation with acute severe liver injury, often with multiorgan dysfunction, on a background of previously known or unknown cirrhosis.
Wright, G +3 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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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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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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Frailty and Sarcopenia in Acute‐on‐Chronic Liver Failure [PDF]
Hepatology Communications, 2021 In patients with cirrhosis, sarcopenia is a critical reduction in skeletal muscle mass and frailty represents a status of global physical dysfunction caused by under nutrition, muscle wasting, and functional impairment. Both are prevalent conditions in liver transplant candidates and have shown to be independent predictors of adverse outcome.
Lorena Puchades Renau +5 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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