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The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2006 Acute liver failure in children is a rare but potentially fatal disease. Causes of ALF in neonatal period are different from those in early or late childhood. Despite the improvement in the paediatric intensive care, liver transplantation remains the only effective treatment.
Bansal, Sanjay, Dhawan, Anil
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Acute Hepatitis B with Pancreatitis and Cholecystitis Leading to Acute Liver Failure and Death
Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2018 Acute liver failure is defined as severe acute liver injury, concurrent with encephalopathy and loss of hepatic synthetic function, in a patient without known pre-existing liver disease.
Andrew R. Albert +2 more
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Sunitinib-Induced Acute Liver Failure
Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2021 Drug-induced liver injury is an uncommon but life-threatening entity. Sunitinib is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor used for advanced and imatinib-refractory gastrointestinal stromal tumors. It causes transient elevation in liver enzymes.
Anum Aqsa +4 more
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Babesiosis Presenting as Acute Liver Failure
Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2017 Babesiosis is a zoonotic, tick-borne infection caused by the protozoan Babesia. It is transmitted by the Ixodes ticks which transmit the infection to humans. Babesia microti, Babesia duncani, Babesia divergens, and Babesia venatorum are species that have
Yousef Nassar, Seth Richter
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Acute Decompensation and Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure.
Clinical Liver Disease, 2021 Liver cirrhosis is a major healthcare problem. Acute decompensation, and in particular its interplay with dysfunction of other organs, is responsible for the majority of deaths in patients with cirrhosis.
Philip G Ferstl, J. Trebicka
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Decreased glutamate transporter (GLT-1) expression in frontal cortex of rats with acute liver failure [PDF]
, 1997 It has been suggested that reduced astrocytic uptake of neuronally released glutamate contributes to the pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy in acute liver failure.
Butterworth, Roger +4 more
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Circulating microRNAs: promising candidates serving as novel biomarkers of acute hepatitis [PDF]
, 2012 Acute liver failure as life threatening condition comprises a difficult diagnostic situation to evaluate potential outcomes and therapeutic options. Thus, prognostic indicators are urgently needed for evaluation of progression of liver injury, clinical ...
Ali Canbay +5 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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Hepatology International, 2019 The first consensus report of the working party of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) set up in 2004 on acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) was published in 2009.
S. Sarin +112 more
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Acute Liver Failure Secondary to Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis during Pregnancy. [PDF]
, 2016 Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a syndrome of excessive immune activation that mimics and occurs with other systemic diseases. A 35-year-old female presented with signs of viral illness at 13 weeks of pregnancy and progressed to acute liver ...
Decker, Kerry A +5 more
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