Successful MARS treatment in severe cholestatic patients with acute on chronic liver failure

Artificial Organs

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 565-569

  Di Campli, Cristiana ^a   Gaspari, Rita ^a   Mignani, Vittorio ^a   Stifano, Giovanna ^a   Santoliquido, Angelo ^a   Dal Verme, Lorenzo Zileri ^a   Proietti, Rodolfo ^a   Pola, Paolo ^a   Silveri, Niccolò Gentiloni ^a   Gasbarrini, Giovanni ^a   Gasbarrini, Antonio ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cholestasis; Liver failure; Liver transplant; MARS; Molecular adsorbent recycling system

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; PATIENT TREATMENT; RECYCLING;

ACUTE-ON-CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE; CHOLESTASI; LIVER DEVICES; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MOLECULAR ADSORBENT RECYCLING SYSTEM; RECYCLING SYSTEMS;

UREA;

AMMONIA; BILE ACID; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; ELECTROLYTE; LACTIC ACID; NITROGEN; UREA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CLOTTING; BRAIN DISEASE; CHOLESTASIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0037504153     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1594.2003.07138.x     Document Type: Article

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