Toward an improved definition of acute-on-chronic liver failure

Gastroenterology

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 4-10

  Jalan, Rajiv ^a   Yurdaydin, Cihan ^b   Bajaj, Jasmohan S ^c   Acharya, Subrat K ^d   Arroyo, Vicente ^e   Lin, Han Chieh ^f   Gines, Pere ^e   Kim, W Ray ^f   Kamath, Patrick S ^g,h  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ON CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE; ACUTE ON CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE TYPE A; ACUTE ON CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE TYPE B; ACUTE ON CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE TYPE C; DIGESTIVE THERAPEUTIC DEVICE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; LIVER SUPPORT; LIVER SUPPORT DEVICE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM;

COMORBIDITY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PROGNOSIS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84902990895     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: 15280012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2014.05.005     Document Type: Editorial

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