Acute liver failure in children: Observations in Vitória, Espirito Santo State, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 483-486

  Moreira Silva, Sandra F ^a   Frauches, Diana O ^a   Almeida, Alba L ^a   Mendonça, Haydée F M S ^a   Pereira, Fausto Edmundo L ^b  

^a Hosp Inf Nossa Senhora da Gloria   (Spain)

^b Univ Federal do Espirito Santo   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute hepatitis; Fulminant hepatitis; Hepatitis; Hepatitis A; Liver failure

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS A ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS NON A TO E; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIROLOGY; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NON-A, NON-B HEPATITIS VIRUS;

BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE;

EID: 0036453645     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0037-86822002000500010     Document Type: Article

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