MARS (Molecular Adsorbent Recirculating System): Experience in 34 cases of acute liver failure

Liver

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2002, Pages 43-47

  Novelli, Gilnardo ^a,b   Rossi, Massimo ^a   Pretagostini, Renzo ^a   Poli, Luca ^a   Novelli, Luigi ^a   Berloco, Pasquale ^a   Ferretti, Giancarlo ^a   Iappelli, Massimo ^a   Cortesini, Raffaello ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Liver transplantation; MARS

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; AMMONIA; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BILIRUBIN; CALCIUM; POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSATE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL STANDARD UNIT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MONITOR; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

EID: 0036385286     PISSN: 01069543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0676.2002.00008.x     Document Type: Article

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