Fulminant hepatitis requiring MARS and liver transplantation in a patient with Still's disease

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Taccone, Fabio Silvio ^a   Lucidi, Valerio ^a   Donckier, Vincent ^a   Bourgeois, Nadine ^a   Decaux, Guy ^a   Vandergheynst, Frederic ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fulminant liver failure; Liver transplantation; MARS; Still's disease

Indexed keywords

ABSORBENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; ALBUMIN DIALYSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG INDICATION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER, ARTIFICIAL; SORPTION DETOXIFICATION; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET;

EID: 51649084354     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2007.06.025     Document Type: Article

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