Fulminant hepatic failure in an African setting: Etiology, clinical course, and predictors of mortality

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3266-3269

  Mudawi, H M Y ^a   Yousif, B A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^b El Fasher University   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Encephalopathy; Fulminant hepatic failure; Predictors of mortality

Indexed keywords

KETOCONAZOLE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MORTALITY; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATITIS VIRUSES; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUDAN; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 34848897558     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9730-z     Document Type: Article

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