Splanchnic metabolism in acute liver failure and sepsis

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 152-155

  Clemmesen, Otto ^a   Ott, Peter ^a   Larsen, Fin Stolze ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Hepatic; Lactate; Oxygen extraction; Pyruvate; Sepsis; Splanchnic

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; DOPAMINE; ENDOTOXIN; FATTY ACID; KETONE BODY; LACTIC ACID; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; NORADRENALIN; OXYGEN; PYRUVIC ACID; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; GLYCOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERLACTATEMIA; HYPERMETABOLISM; HYPOXIA; LIVER FAILURE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW;

HUMANS; KETONE BODIES; LACTIC ACID; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SEPSIS; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 1942487266     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00075198-200404000-00012     Document Type: Review

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