Pretransplant neurological presentation and severe posttransplant brain injury in patients with acute liver failure

Transplantation

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 768-774

  Tan, Wen Fei ^a,b   Steadman, Randolph H ^a   Farmer, Douglas G ^a   Hong, Johnny C ^a   Busuttil, Ronald W ^a   Apinyachon, Worapot ^a,c   Xia, Victor W ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Brain death; Fulminant hepatic failure; Liver transplantation; Neurological complication; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURIES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867259848     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3182620596     Document Type: Article

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