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Revision as of 20:21, 28 August 2012
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Acute liver failure Microchapters |
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Acute liver failure surgery On the Web |
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American Roentgen Ray Society Images of Acute liver failure surgery |
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Risk calculators and risk factors for Acute liver failure surgery |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Surgery
- Drainage of ascites
- While many people who develop acute liver failure recover with supportive treatment, liver transplantation is often required in people who continue to deteriorate or have adverse prognostic factors.
- "Liver dialysis" (various measures to replace normal liver function) is evolving as a treatment modality and is gradually being introduced in the care of patients with liver failure.
Liver Transplantation
| King's College Hospital criteria for liver transplantation in acute liver failure[1] |
| Patients with paracetamol toxicity pH <7.3 or |
| Other patients Prothrombin time >100 seconds or |
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