Intensive Care Management of Patients Prior to Liver Transplantation
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چکیده
Liver failure is a devastating illness with extremely high morbidity and mortality. With the advent of life-saving orthotopic liver transplantation, the mortality and morbidity due to liver failure has been significantly reduced. Many patients awaiting transplant are critically ill. The intensive care management of patients before liver transplantation is aimed at optimizing hepatic and extrahepatic organ function before the transplant operation, with a goal to favorably influence the perioperative and postoperative graft and patient survival.
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