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Liver transplantation for viral hepatitis in 2015 [PDF]
, 2016 Liver transplantation (LT) is a life-saving treatment for patients with end-stage liver disease and for patients with liver cell cancer related to liver disease.
Bortoluzzi, Ilaria +8 more
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Pathologic analysis of liver transplantation for primary biliary cirrhosis [PDF]
, 1988 A retrospective histopathologic review of all pathologic specimens from 394 adult liver transplant patients was undertaken with clinical correlation to determine if primary biliary cirrhosis has affected the posttrans‐plant course compared to all other ...
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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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Acute-on-chronic Liver Failure: MELD Score 30-day Mortality Predictability and Etiology in a Pakistani Population [PDF]
, 2020 Background: Cirrhosis is a pathological condition that ultimately leads to liver failure. Acute on chronic liver failure (ACLF) has a high short term mortality rate. Viral hepatitis is the most common cause of liver failure in our local population.
Gilani, N. A. (Naeem) +5 more
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New technologies - new insights into the pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy [PDF]
, 2016 Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a neuropsychiatric syndrome which frequently accompanies acute or chronic liver disease. It is characterized by a variety of symptoms of different severity such as cognitive deficits and impaired motor functions. Currently,
Ampuero, J +6 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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Ammonia toxicity: from head to toe? [PDF]
, 2016 Ammonia is diffused and transported across all plasma membranes. This entails that hyperammonemia leads to an increase in ammonia in all organs and tissues.
Dasarathy, Srinivasan +6 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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Matrix metalloproteinases in liver injury, repair and fibrosis. [PDF]
, 2015 The liver is a large highly vascularized organ with a central function in metabolic homeostasis, detoxification, and immunity. Due to its roles, the liver is frequently exposed to various insults which can cause cell death and hepatic dysfunction ...
Baber, John +3 more
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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 +7 more
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