Outcome predictors of fulminant hepatic failure in children

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 432-436

  Chan, Pei Chun ^a   Chen, Huey Ling ^a   Ni, Yen Hsuan ^a   Hsu, Hong Yuan ^a   Chang, Luan Yin ^a   Lee, Ping Ing ^a   Chang, Mei Hwei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Child; Infant; Liver failure; Mortality; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; AMMONIA; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CHOLESTEROL; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; THROMBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTERIAL GAS; BLOOD PH; BRAIN DISEASE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; WILSON DISEASE; ARTICLE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; INFANT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TAIWAN;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TAIWAN;

EID: 4444256826     PISSN: 09296646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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