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Apollo Medicine, 2021 Acute liver failure is an uncommon disease presenting with abrupt failure of liver synthetic and detoxification functions on account of widespread damage to hepatocytes and is associated with high mortality.
Vikash Prakash
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Procalcitonin Identifies Cell Injury, Not Bacterial Infection, in Acute Liver Failure. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Because acute liver failure (ALF) patients share many clinical features with severe sepsis and septic shock, identifying bacterial infection clinically in ALF patients is challenging.
Jody A Rule +6 more
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Circulating microRNAs Reveal Time Course of Organ Injury in a Porcine Model of Acetaminophen-Induced Acute Liver Failure. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Acute liver failure is a rare but catastrophic condition which can progress rapidly to multi-organ failure. Studies investigating the onset of individual organ injury such as the liver, kidneys and brain during the evolution of acute liver failure, are ...
Luisa A Baker +9 more
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Annals of Hepatology, 2010 Acute liver failure is a rare but often catastrophic illness affecting the liver and multiple organ systems. Patients with acute liver failure require a multidisciplinary approach for adequate management.
Murali Pathikonda, Santiago J. Munoz, MD
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Hypothermia in acute liver failure [PDF]
Metabolic Brain Disease, 2004 The development of encephalopathy in patients with acute liver injury defines the occurrence of liver failure. The encephalopathy of acute liver failure is characterized by brain edema which manifests clinically as increased intracranial pressure ...
Jalan, Rajiv, Rose, Christopher
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Pediatric Reports, 2023 Pediatric acute liver failure (PALF) has recently become a subject of great interest when multiple clusters of non-A to non-E severe acute hepatitis in otherwise healthy young children with a median age of 2 years were reported around the world [...]
Claudia Mandato, Pietro Vajro
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JAAPAABSTRACT Acute liver failure, commonly caused by acetaminophen overdose, is associated with numerous systemic complications including cerebral edema, hypotension, acute kidney injury, and infection. Management is primarily supportive, with an emphasis on excellent neurocritical care.
Girish V, Royer A, John S.
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Journal of Pediatric Critical Care, 2019 Out of various etiology involved in liver pathology viral and metabolic causes are important in children. Hypoxic and ischemic liver injury are commonly seen in PICU.
Kundan Mittal +2 more
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The Lancet, 2020 Acute liver failure is a rare syndrome and is primarily caused by paracetamol toxicity in developed nations. Survival for patients with acute liver failure has steadily improved over the last few decades from approximately 20% to greater than 60%. This marked improvement in survival has been due to a combination of improvements in medical practice and ...
Sandro, Vento, Francesca, Cainelli
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Metabolic investigations prevent liver transplantation in two young children with citrullinemia type I [PDF]
, 2010 Acute liver failure may be caused by a variety of disorders including inborn errors of metabolism. In those cases, rapid metabolic investigations and adequate treatment may avoid the need for liver transplantation.
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