[Fulminant liver failure: intensive care, extracorporeal treatment and liver transplantation.]

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Fulminant liver failure is characterized by massive acute Hepatocyte dysfunction associated with severe coagulopathy, acute hyperdynamic circulatory failure and hepatic encephalopathy. According to the more recent classification, which takes into account the interval between the onset of jaundice and the hepatic encephalopathy, three are the main forms of ALF hyperacute, acute or subacute. Despite recent and relevant advances in intensive care management and organ support techniques (both artificial and bioartificial), mortality remains extremely high, early deaths being related to cerebral oedema and circulatory failure, whereas late deaths are associated with sepsis and multiple organ failure. Orthotopic liver transplantation has proven to be the only treatment modality able to change radically the ALF natural course. he experiences with artificial and bioartificial devices, in spite of being interesting and sometimes very promising, are far from giving a real impact on survival and remain, so far, important interim measures for patients eventually candidate to liver transplantation.

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MEDLINE DATE: 2006 May-Jun

[Fulminant liver failure: intensive care, extracorporeal treatment and liver transplantation.] Journal Published:

PUBLICATION TYPE: Review

Journal: Giornale italiano di nefrologia : organo ufficiale

VOLUME: 23 Suppl 36

Page Numbers: S61-8

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ISSN: 0393-5590

DAY: 13

MONTH: 03

YEAR: 2008

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Number of References: 40

LANGUAGE: ita

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KEYWORDS: Liver Transplantation

MESH TERMS: surgery

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AFFILIATION: Ospedale Niguarda Ca' Granda, Milano. andrea.degasperi@ospedaleniguarda.it

Country: Italy

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MEDLINETA: G Ital Nefrol

REFSOURCE: G Ital Nefrol. 2007 Nov-Dec;24(6):628-9

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