Fulminant Hepatic Failure: When the Hepatologist Meets the Neurointensivist

Despite its rarity, ALF has engendered attention because of its severity, the intensive and costly use of health care resources, including transplantation, and its interest as an unusual and devastating disease complication and lesson in pathophysiology. The Acute Liver Failure Study Group (ALFSG),...

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Published in:Neurocritical care 2008-08, Vol.9 (1), p.1-2
Main Authors: Lee, William M., Wijdicks, Eelco F. M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analgesics
Collaboration
Critical Care
Critical Care Medicine
Edema
Gastroenterology
Hepatic Encephalopathy - therapy
Hepatitis
Hepatology
Humans
Hypertension
Hypothermia
Intensive
Internal Medicine
Intracranial pressure
Liver
Liver Failure, Acute - therapy
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Neurology
Pathophysiology
Transplants & implants
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Summary:Despite its rarity, ALF has engendered attention because of its severity, the intensive and costly use of health care resources, including transplantation, and its interest as an unusual and devastating disease complication and lesson in pathophysiology. The Acute Liver Failure Study Group (ALFSG), a consortium of 23 academic centers, has focused attention on the diagnosis and therapy of this condition. [...]Todd Stravitz reviews the protocol developed by the ALF Study Group that is currently under review by NIDDK. Jalan, R; Olde Damink, SW; Deutz, NE; Hayes, PC; Lee, A. Restoration of cerebral blood flow autoregulation and reactivity to carbon dioxide in acute liver failure by moderate hypothermia.
ISSN:1541-6933
1556-0961
DOI:10.1007/s12028-008-9079-6