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Novel scoring system as a useful model to predict the outcome of patients with acute liver failure: Application to indication criteria for liver transplantation
- Source :
- Hepatology Research. 42:68-75
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2011.
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Abstract
- Aim: In Japan, the indication for liver transplantation in patients with acute liver failure (ALF) is currently determined according to the guideline published in 1996. However, its predictive accuracy has fallen in recent patients. Thus, we attempted to establish a new guideline. Methods: The subjects were 1096 ALF patients enrolled in a nationwide survey. All patients showed a prothrombin time
- Subjects :
- Prothrombin time
medicine.medical_specialty
Scoring system
Hepatology
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Liver failure
Guideline
Liver transplantation
medicine.disease
Gastroenterology
Surgery
Infectious Diseases
Internal medicine
medicine
In patient
Fulminant hepatitis
business
Hepatic encephalopathy
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13866346
- Volume :
- 42
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Hepatology Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........417d6b1f84e4c0b8f9d9adbf480e483c