Pediatric Acute Liver Failure [PDF]
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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Prognostic Markers in Pediatric Acute Liver Failure [PDF]
GE: Portuguese Journal of Gastroenterology, 2023 Introduction: Acute liver failure (ALF), although rare in children, is a complex progressive pathology, with multisystem involvement and high mortality.
Andreia Filipa Nogueira +6 more
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Pediatric acute liver failure: An experience of a pediatric intensive care unit from resource limited settings [PDF]
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022 IntroductionPediatric acute liver failure is a rare and serious disease. Though liver transplantation is considered as the established treatment option for patients who are unlikely to recover with medical management, however, with the advancement of ...
Puja Amatya +6 more
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Metagenomic and transcriptomic investigation of pediatric acute liver failure cases reveals a common pathway predominated by monocytes [PDF]
mBioIn 2022, a cluster of severe childhood hepatitis was detected primarily in Europe and North America, leading to a global alert by the World Health Organization.
Ruben H. de Kleine +18 more
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Pediatric Acute Liver Failure in Sickle Cell Disease [PDF]
GE: Portuguese Journal of Gastroenterology, 2021 Introduction: Sickle cell intrahepatic cholestasis (SCIC) is one of the rarest and the most severe acute hepatic manifestations of sickle cell disease (SCD) and it can rapidly progress to acute liver failure.
Luís Rodrigues +3 more
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Prognostic parameters of pediatric acute liver failure and the role of plasma exchange
Pediatrics and Neonatology, 2019 Background: This study investigated the prognostic parameters and beneficial effects of repeat plasma exchange in children with acute liver failure (ALF).
Mu-Ming Chien +8 more
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Timing of liver transplantation for pediatric acute liver failure due to mushroom poisoning: a case report and literature review [PDF]
BMC Pediatrics, 2020 Background Pediatric acute liver failure is a rare, life-threatening illness. Mushroom poisoning is a rare etiology. For patients with irreversible pediatric acute liver failure, liver transplantation is the ultimate lifesaving therapy.
Chun-Feng Yang +3 more
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Development of a prognostic model for pediatric acute liver failure in a Brazilian center [PDF]
Jornal de Pediatria, 2022 Objective: Pediatric acute liver failure (PALF) is a heterogeneous, rare, and severe condition, which outcome is survival due to liver spontaneous recovery or death.
José Colleti Junior +4 more
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Hemostatic Balance in Pediatric Acute Liver Failure: Epidemiology of Bleeding and Thrombosis, Physiology, and Current Strategies [PDF]
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2020 Pediatric Acute Liver Failure (PALF) is a rapidly progressive clinical syndrome encountered in the pediatric ICU which may rapidly progress to multi-organ dysfunction, and on occasion to life threatening cerebral edema and hemorrhage.
Yonca Bulut, Anil Sapru, Gavin D. Roach
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Resolution of recurrent pediatric acute liver failure with liver transplantation in a patient with NBAS mutation [PDF]
Pediatric Transplantation, 2021 Shanmuganathan Chandrakasan +2 more
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