Selection for acute liver failure: Have we got it right?

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 11 SUPPL. 2, 2005, Pages

  Blei, Andres T ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BILIRUBIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; LACTIC ACID; PARACETAMOL; PHOSPHATE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN EDEMA; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER INJURY; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERFORMANCE; PH MEASUREMENT; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DECISION MAKING; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PHOSPHATES; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 30444432408     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20595     Document Type: Article

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