Acute liver failure in children: 20-Year experience

Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 127-134

  Bariş, Zeren ^a   Saltik Temizel, Inci Nur ^b   Uslu, Nuray ^b   Usta, Yusuf ^c   Demir, Hülya ^b   Gürakan, Figen ^b   Özen, Hasan ^b   Yüce, Aysel ^b  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Pediatric; Wilson's disease

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN;

ACIDOSIS; ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALPERS DISEASE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHOLESTASIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALACTOSEMIA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; JAUNDICE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER TOXICITY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METABOLIC DISORDER; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; MUSHROOM POISONING; NIEMANN PICK DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; STEATOSIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOXIC HEPATITIS; TYROSINEMIA; WILSON DISEASE; WOLMAN DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ASCITES; BILIRUBIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDEMA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; JAUNDICE; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPLENOMEGALY; TURKEY;

EID: 84861800838     PISSN: 13004948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4318/tjg.2012.0319     Document Type: Article

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