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Acute hepatic failure: limitations of medical treatment and indications for liver transplantation

✍ Scribed by Peters, M. ;Meyer zum B�schenfelde, K.-H. ;Gerken, G.

Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Year
1993
Tongue
English
Weight
713 KB
Volume
71
Category
Article
ISSN
1432-1440

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✦ Synopsis

Acute hepatic failure is defined as hepatic encephalopathy without evidence of previous liver disease. However, at times acute hepatic failure may be the presentation of Wilson's disease, autoimmune chronic active hepatitis, or delta superinfection in patients with chronic active hepatitis B. Currently accepted definitions of acute hepatic failure and of subvarieties thereof have been published [39] based on the time span between the onset of jaundice in a previously asymptomatic patient and the appearance of encephalopathy: acute liver failure refers to a period of 0-8 weeks,fulminant to one of less than 2 weeks, and subacute to one of 9-26 weeks.

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