ALLMedicine™ Acute Liver Failure Center

Sep 22nd, 2020 - Infantile liver failure syndrome-2 (ILFS2) is caused by neuroblastoma amplified sequence (NBAS) mutation. The disease is characterized by recurrent episodes of acute liver failure (ALF) or by liver crisis triggered by recurrent episodes of fever a...

Sep 21st, 2020 - Power and Pitfalls of Computational Methods to Identify New Genes Responsible for Acute Liver Failure of Indeterminate Etiology in Adults.|2020|Heddar A,Misrahi M,|

Sep 21st, 2020 - Liver injury in patients with dengue infection is common. Most patients have mild and transient hepatitis. Acute liver failure (ALF) in dengue infection is rare but results in an extremely poor prognosis. To identify prognostic predictors of ALF a...

Sep 16th, 2020 - Acute liver failure is a rare syndrome and is primarily caused by paracetamol toxicity in developed nations. Survival for patients with acute liver failure has steadily improved over the last few decades from approximately 20% to greater than 60%....

Sep 16th, 2020 - Poisoning due to ingestion of yellow phosphorus (YP) containing rodenticide accounts for 17% of all poisoning in India and 0.3% in the USA.(1,2) YP disrupts oxidative phosphorylation and protein synthesis causing acute liver failure (ALF), renal i...

Jan 5th, 2017 - American Gastroenterological Association Institute Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Acute Liver Failure.|2017|Flamm SL,Yang YX,Singh S,Falck-Ytter YT, ,|standards,standards,diagnosis,etiology,therapy,standards,

Feb 29th, 2012 - Acute liver failure (ALF) is a rare condition in which rapid deterioration of liver function results in altered mentation and coagulopathy in individuals without known pre-existing liver disease. U.

Dec 1st, 2011 - In patients who do not respond to a volume challenge and norepinephrine, vasopressin and its analogues may potentiate the effects of norepinephrine and allow a decrease in its infusion rate, which in turn may avoid intense vasoconstriction in peri.

Jul 29th, 2009 - Objectives of the International Society for Hepatic Encephalopathy and Nitrogen Metabolism Commission were to identify well-characterized animal models of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) and to highlight areas of animal modelling of the disorder that ...

Jun 12th, 2009 - Parenteral nutrition (PN) offers the possibility to increase or to ensure nutrient intake in patients, in whom sufficient nutrition by oral or enteral alone is insufficient or impossible. Complementary to the ESPEN guideline on enteral nutrition o...

Sep 22nd, 2020 - Infantile liver failure syndrome-2 (ILFS2) is caused by neuroblastoma amplified sequence (NBAS) mutation. The disease is characterized by recurrent episodes of acute liver failure (ALF) or by liver crisis triggered by recurrent episodes of fever a...

Sep 21st, 2020 - Power and Pitfalls of Computational Methods to Identify New Genes Responsible for Acute Liver Failure of Indeterminate Etiology in Adults.|2020|Heddar A,Misrahi M,|

Sep 21st, 2020 - Liver injury in patients with dengue infection is common. Most patients have mild and transient hepatitis. Acute liver failure (ALF) in dengue infection is rare but results in an extremely poor prognosis. To identify prognostic predictors of ALF a...

Sep 16th, 2020 - Acute liver failure is a rare syndrome and is primarily caused by paracetamol toxicity in developed nations. Survival for patients with acute liver failure has steadily improved over the last few decades from approximately 20% to greater than 60%....

Sep 16th, 2020 - Poisoning due to ingestion of yellow phosphorus (YP) containing rodenticide accounts for 17% of all poisoning in India and 0.3% in the USA.(1,2) YP disrupts oxidative phosphorylation and protein synthesis causing acute liver failure (ALF), renal i...

Nov 6th, 2019 - A toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) antagonist may eventually be used to combat brain edema in acute liver failure, according to investigators. This prediction is based on results of a recent study involving mouse models, which showed that ODN2088, a TL.

May 1st, 2019 - At Visit 2 in the ED, Ms. L was started on NAC because the team suspected she was experiencing drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome.

Oct 11th, 2018 - PHILADELPHIA – Black patients are more likely to be put on a transplant list because of acute liver failure, be listed as status 1, and receive a liver transplant, compared with white patients, according to a recent presentation at the annual meet.

Dec 20th, 2017 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Decellularized human placenta has been shown to support hepatic tissue growth and provide sufficient tissue for rescue in an acute liver failure model. The capacity of a scaffold to carry transplanted liver tissue conta...

Jul 25th, 2017 - Acute liver failure (ALF), is a life-threatening deterioration of liver function in people without preexisting cirrhosis. It can be caused by acetaminophen toxicity, pregnancy, ischemia, hepatitis A infection, and Wilson disease, among other thing.