Role of plasmapheresis in the management of acute hepatic failure in children

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 234, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 418-424

  Singer, Andrew L ^a   Olthoff, Kim M ^a   Kim, Haewon ^a   Rand, Elizabeth ^a   Zamir, Gideon ^a   Shaked, Abraham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PLASMAPHERESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034850141     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200109000-00015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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