Another formula to determine the prognosis of patients with acute liver failure: Comments

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 986-991

  Perkins, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; ALCOHOL; CD11B ANTIGEN; L SELECTIN; LACTOFERRIN;

BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT SURVEY; VOLUMETRY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS ETHANOL INJECTION; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; COLD ISCHEMIA; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; FATTY LIVER; HEPATIC VEIN; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LIVER ISCHEMIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PORTAL VEIN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REPERFUSION INJURY; UPREGULATION;

EID: 69949096665     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21823     Document Type: Short Survey

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