Classification of the etiologies of acute liver failure in Japan: A report by the Intractable Hepato-Biliary Diseases Study Group of Japan

The Intractable Liver Diseases Study Group of Japan, supported by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, established novel diagnostic criteria for “acute liver failure” in 2011. In these criteria, patients without histological findings of hepatitis are included in the disease entity of “acute li...

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Published in:Hepatology research 2014-04, Vol.44 (4), p.365-367
Main Authors: Mochida, Satoshi, Takikawa, Yasuhiro, Nakayama, Nobuaki, Oketani, Makoto, Naiki, Takafumi, Yamagishi, Yoshiyuki, Fujiwara, Keiichi, Ichida, Takafumi, Tsubouchi, Hirohito
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
autoimmune hepatitis
drug-induced liver injury
fulminant hepatic failure
fulminant hepatitis
HBV
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Summary:The Intractable Liver Diseases Study Group of Japan, supported by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, established novel diagnostic criteria for “acute liver failure” in 2011. In these criteria, patients without histological findings of hepatitis are included in the disease entity of “acute liver failure”, as in Europe and the USA. In this report, classification criteria for the etiologies of “acute liver failure” in Japan are proposed.
ISSN:1386-6346
1872-034X
DOI:10.1111/hepr.12295