Predicting the outcome of fulminant hepatic failure

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1028-1030

  Obaid Shakil, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5; HALOTHANE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LACTIC ACID; PARACETAMOL;

BRAIN EDEMA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EDITORIAL; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPOPHOSPHATEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TOXICITY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 25144457094     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20478     Document Type: Editorial

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