Acute liver failure in Lithuania

Medicina

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 536-540

  Adukauskiene, Dalia ^a   Dockiene, Ilona ^a   Naginiene, Rima ^a   Kevelaitis, Egidijus ^a   Pundzius, Juozas ^a   Kupĉinskas, Limas ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Etiology; Liver transplantation; Prognostic criteria; Survival

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; PARACETAMOL; PROTHROMBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; LITHUANIA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOXIC HEPATITIS;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILIRUBIN; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS, TOXIC; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTHROMBIN; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 53049105826     PISSN: 1010660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/medicina44070069     Document Type: Article

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