Acute liver failure in Japan: Definition, classification, and prediction of the outcome

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 849-861

  Sugawara, Kayoko ^a   Nakayama, Nobuaki ^a   Mochida, Satoshi ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Fulminant hepatitis; Hepatic encephalopathy; Late onset hepatic failure; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ARTIFICIAL LIVER; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BLEEDING TENDENCY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EUROPE; HEMODIAFILTRATION; HEPATIC COMA; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NOMENCLATURE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

EUROPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867582550     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: 14355922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-012-0624-x     Document Type: Review

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