Clinical impact of arterial ammonia levels in ICU patients with different liver diseases

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1227-1237

  Drolz, Andreas ^a   Jäger, Bernhard ^a   Wewalka, Marlene ^a   Saxa, Reinhard ^a   Horvatits, Thomas ^a   Roedl, Kevin ^a   Perkmann, Thomas ^a   Zauner, Christian ^a   Kramer, Ludwig ^b   Ferenci, Peter ^a   Fuhrmann, Valentin ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Krankenhaus Hietzing   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Ammonia; Hypoxic hepatitis; Liver cirrhosis; Mortality

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMMONIA; BILIRUBIN; PARACETAMOL;

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; AMANITA; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN HERNIA; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CHILD PUGH SCORE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS C; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURVIVOR; WILSON DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AMMONIA; AUSTRIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84879096966     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-013-2926-8     Document Type: Article

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