Novel scoring system as a useful model to predict the outcome of patients with acute liver failure: Application to indication criteria for liver transplantation

Hepatology Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 68-75

  Naiki, Takafumi ^a   Nakayama, Nobuaki ^b   Mochida, Satoshi ^b   Oketani, Makoto ^c   Takikawa, Yasuhiro ^d   Suzuki, Kazuyuki ^d   Tada, Shin Ichiro ^e   Ichida, Takafumi ^f   Moriwaki, Hisataka ^a   Tsubouchi, Hirohito ^c  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Fulminant hepatitis; Guideline; Indication criteria; Liver transplantation; Outcome prediction

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER ATROPHY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT INDICATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 84055199677     PISSN: 13866346     EISSN: 1872034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1872-034X.2011.00902.x     Document Type: Article

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