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 ...
Ballardini +25 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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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 [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology, 2017 Acute-on chronic liver failure (ACLF) is defined as acute insult on previous liver disease that causes sudden worsening of liver functions.ACLF is characterized by high incidence of organ failure and prognosis is remarkably worse than patients with cirrhosis. Incidence of organ failures is very high despite best medical care and timely liver transplant
Narendra S. Choudhary +3 more
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Successful orthotopic liver transplantation in an adult patient with sickle cell disease and review of the literature [PDF]
, 2013 Sickle cell disease can lead to hepatic complications ranging from acute hepatic crises to chronic liver disease including intrahepatic cholestasis, and iron overload.
Blinder, Morey A. +7 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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The Royal Free Hospital score: a calibrated prognostic model for patients with cirrhosis admitted to intensive care unit. Comparison with current models and CLIF-SOFA score [PDF]
, 2014 Prognosis for patients with cirrhosis admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) is poor. ICU prognostic models are more accurate than liver-specific models.
Agarwal, B +6 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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Comparison of Different Scores in Predicting Mortality in Patients with Acute on Chronic Liver Failure Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of a Tertiary Care Hospital [PDF]
Journal of Liaquat National Hospital, 2023 Background: The illness known as acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) was just recently identified and characterized which is linked to morbidity and deaths. Several prognostic models are available to stratify these patients.
Raja Taha Yaseen Khan +10 more
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