Morbid prognostic features in patients with chronic liver failure undergoing nonhepatic surgery

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 880-885

  Rice, Henry E ^a   O'Keefe, Grant E ^a   Scott Helton, W ^a   Johansen, Kaj ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b St John Providence Health System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030760326     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1997.01430320082013     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (27)

1. Jackson FC, Christophersen EB, Peternel WW. Preoperative management of patients with liver disease. Surg Clin North Am. 1968;48:907-930.
2. Probst A, Probst T, Zangerl G, et al. Prognosis and life expectancy in chronic liver disease, Dig Dis Sci. 1995;40:1805-1815.
3. Child CG, Turcotte JF, Surgery and portal hypertension. In: Dunphy JE, ed. The Liver and Portal Hypertension. Philadelphia, Pa: WB Saunders Co; 1964: 50-52.
4. Pugh RNH, Murray-Lyon IM, Dawson JL, Pietroni MC, Williams R. Transaction of oesophagus for bleeding oesophageal varices. Br J Surg. 1973;60:646-649.
5. Goldfarb G, Novel O, Poynard T, Rueff B, Efficiency of respiratory assistance in cirrhotic patients with liver failure. Intensive Care Med. 1983;9:271-273.
6. Zimmerman JE, Wagner DP, Seneff MG, Becker RB, Sun X, Knaus WA. Intensive care unit admissions with cirrhosis: risk-stratifying patient groups and predicting individual survival. Hepatology. 1996;23:1393-1401.
7. Aranha GV, Sontag SJ, Greenlee HB. Cholecystectomy in cirrhotic patients: a formidable operation. Am J Surg. 1982;143:55-60.
8. Garrison RN, Cryer HM, Howard DA, Polk HC. Clarification of risk factors for abdominal operations in patients with hepatic cirrhosis. Ann Surg. 1984;199:648-655.
9. D'Albuquerque LA, de Miranda MP, Genzini T, Copstein JL, de Oliveira e Silva A. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in cirrhotic patients, Surg Laparosc Endosc. 1995; 5:272-276.
10. Lehnert T, Herfarth C. Peptic ulcer surgery in patients with liver cirrhosis. Ann Surg. 1993;217:338-346.
11. Ueda H, Iwasaki A, Kusano T, Shirakusa T. Thoracotomy in patients with liver cirrhosis. Scand J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1994;28:37-41.
12. Tinkoff G, Rhodes M, Diamond D, Lucke J. Cirrhosis in the trauma victim: effect on mortality rates. Ann Surg. 1990;211:172-177.
13. Holman JM, Rikkers LF. Success of medical and surgical management of acute variceal hemorrhage. Am J Surg. 1980;140:816-821.
14. World Health Organization. International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9). Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 1977.
15. Conn HO. Transjugular intrahepatic shunts: the state of the art. Hepatology. 1993; 17:148-158.
16. Iwatsuki S, Starzl TE, Todo S, et al. Liver transplantation in the treatment of bleeding esophageal varices. Surgery. 1988;104:697-705.
17. Conn HO. A peek at the Child-Turcotte classification. Hepatology. 1981;1:673-676.
18. Llach J, Gines P, Arroyo V, et al. Prognostic value of arterial pressure, endogenous vasoactive systems, and renal function in cirrhotic patients admitted to the hospital for the treatment of ascites. Gastroenterology. 1988;94:482-487.
19. Neighbor ML, Ascites. Emerg Med Clin North Am. 1989;7:683-697.
20. Knaus WA, Wagner DP, Draper EA, et al. The APACHE III prognostic system: risk prediction of hospital mortality for critically ill hospitalized adults. Chest. 1991; 100:1619-1636.
21. Infante-Rivard C, Esnaola S, Villeneuve JP. Clinical and statistical validity of conventional prognostic factors in predicting short-term survival among cirrhotics. Hepatology. 1987;7:660-664.
22. Caregaro L, Alberino F, Amodio P, et al. Malnutrition in alcoholic and virus-related cirrhosis. Am J Clin Nutr. 1996;271:54-58.
23. Abad A, Cabre E, Gonzales-Huix F, et al. Influence of the nutritional status in the prognosis and clinical outcome of hospitalized patients with liver cirrhosis: preliminary report. J Clin Nutr Gastroenterol. 1987;2:53-68.
24. Mendenhall CL, Tosch T, Weesner RE, et al. VA cooperative study on alcoholic hepatitis II; prognostic significance of protein-calorie malnutrition. Am J Clin Nutr. 1986;43:213-218.
25. Detsky AS, Smalley PS, Chang J. Is this patient malnourished? JAMA. 1994; 271:54-58.
26. Luce JM, Wachter RM. The ethical appropriateness of using prognostic scoring systems in clinical management, Crit Care Clin. 1994;10:229-241.
27. Zook CJ, Moore FD. High-cost users of medical care. N Engl J Med. 1980;302: 996-1002.