Management of patients with fulminant hepatic failure and brain edema

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 207-214

  Tofteng, Flemming ^a   Larsen, Fin Stolze ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; ammonia; brain edema; cerebral blood flow; cerebral perfusion pressure; intracranial pressure; microdialysis; oximetry

Indexed keywords

INDOMETACIN; INFLIXIMAB;

BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LIVER FAILURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC;

EID: 5444230717     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MEBR.0000043970.34533.04     Document Type: Conference Paper

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