Mortality of fulminant hepatic failure with standard supportive therapy is high (80 to 85%), but unfortunately most patients present to hospital already in Grade IV encephalopathy with severe liver dysfunction, and many have secondary organ damage. If seen earlier, during Grade III encephalopathy, r
Assessment of ventricular contractile function during orthotopic liver transplantation
✍ Scribed by ClausG. Krenn; Rashid Hoda; Ajsa Nikolic; Manfred Greher; Walter Plöchl; OrestO. Chevtchik; Heinz Steltzer
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 163 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0934-0874
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