The use prometheus FPSA system in the treatment of acute liver failure: Preliminary results

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 209-211

  Skwarek, A ^a,c   Grodzicki, M ^a   Nyckowski, P ^a   Kotulski, M ^a   Zieniewicz, K ^a   Michalowicz, B ^a   Patkowski, W ^a   Grzelak, I ^a   Paczkowska, A ^b   Giercuszkiewicz, D ^b   Sanko Resmer J ^c   Paczek L ^c   Krawczyk, M ^a  

^a Department of General Transplant and Liver Surgery ^*  (Poland)

^b Second Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care   (Poland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMMONIA; BILIRUBIN; PARACETAMOL;

ALBUMIN DIALYSIS; AMANITA PHALLOIDES; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLEEDING TENDENCY; BRAIN DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG INTOXICATION; FRACTIONATED PLASMA SEPARATION AND ABSORPTION; HEMIHEPATECTOMY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTOXICATION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; METASTASIS; ORGAN DONOR; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPTICEMIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WILSON DISEASE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER, ARTIFICIAL; SORPTION DETOXIFICATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644542442     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2005.12.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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