Non-hepatic insults are common acute precipitants in patients with acute on chronic liver failure (ACLF)

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3188-3192

  Duseja, Ajay ^a   Chawla, Y K ^a   Dhiman, R K ^a   Kumar, Amit ^a   Choudhary, Narendra ^a   Taneja, Sunil ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Alcoholic hepatitis; Ascites; Bacterial peritonitis; Cirrhosis; Encephalopathy; Hepatic decompensation; Liver failure; Renal failure; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; HUMAN ALBUMIN; INOTROPIC AGENT; VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE ON CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BLEEDING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; KIDNEY INJURY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 78149348821     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-010-1377-0     Document Type: Article

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