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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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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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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 +4 more
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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 +8 more
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Use of OKT3 with ciclosporin and steroids for reversal of acute kidney and liver allograft rejection [PDF]
, 1987 OKT3 monoclonal antibody therapy was added to preexisting baseline immunosuppressive treatment with ciclosporin and steroids to treat rejection in 52 recipients of cadaveric livers and 10 recipients of cadaveric kidneys.
Demetris, AJ, Fung, JJ, Porter, KA
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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 +9 more
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Acute kidney injury and post-reperfusion syndrome in liver transplantation [PDF]
, 2016 In the past decades liver transplantation (LT) has become the treatment of choice for patients with end stage liver disease (ESLD). The chronic shortage of cadaveric organs for transplantation led to the utilization of a greater number of marginal donors
Evison, Felicity +8 more
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Immune mediated liver failure [PDF]
Liver failure is a clinical syndrome of various etiologies, manifesting as jaundice, encephalopathy, coagulopathy and circulatory dysfunction, which result in subsequent multiorgan failure.
Ning, Qin, Wang, Xiaojing
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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 +6 more
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Simple new risk score model for adult cardiac extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: simple cardiac ECMO score. [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Although the use of cardiac extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is increasing in adult patients, the field lacks understanding of associated risk factors. While standard intensive care unit risk scores such as SAPS II (simplified acute
Cavarocchi, Nicholas +3 more
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