Japanese-style intensive medical care improves prognosis for acute liver failure and the perioperative management of liver transplantation

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 4109-4112

  Inoue, K ^a   Watanabe, T ^a   Maruoka, N ^a   Kuroki, Y ^a   Takahashi, H ^a   Yoshiba, M ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY FUJIGAOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; CYCLOSPORIN A; ENTECAVIR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ARTIFICIAL LIVER SUPPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JAPANESE; LIVER SUPPORT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SAFETY; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT INDICATION;

HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER, ARTIFICIAL; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 78650449626     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2010.09.073     Document Type: Conference Paper

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