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Liver Support Systems

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Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2001

Part of the book series: Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2001 ((YEARBOOK,volume 2001))

Abstract

Acute liver failure (ALF) is a syndrome resulting from massive hepatocyte death leading to hepatic dysfunction. The main manifestations of ALF are jaundice with rapidly progressive encephalopathy, coagulopathy and eventually multi-organ dysfunction. First introduced by Trey and Davidson [1] in their manuscript on fulminant hepatic failure, the syndrome of ALF was recently redefined by O’Grady et al. [2] in 1993 according to the interval between the onset of jaundice and encephalopathy distinguishing hyperacute liver failure (0–7 days), ALF (8–28 days), and subacute liver failure (29–72 days).

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  1. Department of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Route de Lennik 808, B-1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Jean-Louis Vincent (Head) (Head)

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Sorkine, P., Abraham, R.B., Szold, O. (2001). Liver Support Systems. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2001. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2001, vol 2001. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59467-0_50

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