How can acute-on-chronic liver failure be accurately identified?

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 390-391

  Wang, Fu Sheng ^a   Zhang, Zheng ^a  

^a BEIJING 302 HOSPITAL   (China)

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE ON CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE SEQUENTIAL ORGAN FAILURE ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER SUPPORT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; VIRUS HEPATITIS; VIRUS REACTIVATION; ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; MALE; NOTE; COMPLICATION; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE;

END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE;

EID: 84879973206     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2013.72     Document Type: Article

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