Fulminant hepatic failure: etiology and indications for liver transplantation
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Fulminant hepatic failure: etiology and indications for liver transplantation.
Fulminant hepatic failure is characterized by the development of severe liver injury with impaired synthetic capacity and encephalopathy in patients with previous normal liver or at least well compensated liver disease. The etiology of fulminant hepatic failure refers to a wide variety of causes, of which toxin-induced or viral hepatitis are most common. In spite of specific therapeutic options...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0931-0509,1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm650