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Critical care hepatology: definitions, incidence, prognosis and role of liver failure in critically ill patients

open access: yesCritical 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
doaj   +1 more source

Serum 1H-NMR metabolomic fingerprints of acute-on-chronic liver failure in intensive care unit patients with alcoholic cirrhosis.

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +1 more source

Use of OKT3 with ciclosporin and steroids for reversal of acute kidney and liver allograft rejection [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Alterations in the Gut Microbiota and Hepatitis-B-Virus Infection in Southern Chinese Patients With Coexisting Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Immune mediated liver failure [PDF]

open access: yes
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
core   +1 more source

Acute kidney injury and post-reperfusion syndrome in liver transplantation [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +3 more sources

Imatinib-induced fulminant liver failure in chronic myeloid leukemia: role of liver transplant and second-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors: a case report

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Simple new risk score model for adult cardiac extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: simple cardiac ECMO score. [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +2 more sources

The Role of Invasive Procedures in the Treatment of Complicated Gastrointestinal Graft‐Versus‐Host Disease in Pediatric Patients

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Gastrointestinal graft‐versus‐host disease (GI GVHD) following hematopoietic stem cell transplant is typically managed with medical therapy, but surgery and angioembolization may be warranted in selected cases with life‐threatening complications.
Gaia Brunetti   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Acute kidney injury in hospitalized cirrhotic patients: Risk factors, type of kidney injury, and survival

open access: yesJGH Open, 2021
Background and Aim Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication of chronic liver disease (CLD). We performed a prospective study to evaluate the risk factors and spectrum of AKI among decompensated cirrhosis (DC) patients and the impact of AKI on ...
Chitta Ranjan Khatua   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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