Racial and Ethnic Differences in Presentation, Etiology, and Outcomes of Acute Liver Failure in the United States

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1121-1126

  Forde, Kimberly A ^a   Reddy, K Rajender ^a   Troxel, Andrea B ^a   Sanders, Corron M ^b   Lee, William M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ESTROGEN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HERBACEOUS AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PARACETAMOL; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BRAIN DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DRUG USE; EDUCATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SEX; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ADULT; ANIMALS; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349545876     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2009.05.029     Document Type: Article

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