Intracranial pressure monitoring and liver transplantation for fulminant hepatic failure
β Scribed by Steven D. Lidofsky; Nathan M. Bass; Marie C. Prager; Denna E. Washington; Alexandra E. Read; Teresa L. Wright; Nancy L. Ascher; John P. Roberts; Bruce F. Scharschmidt; John R. Lake
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 846 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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β¦ Synopsis
mqjor complication of intracranial pressure monitoring was intracranial hemorrhage, which occurred in five patients and contributed to two patient deaths. Intracranial pressure monitoring represents a potentially important tool in the preoperative and intraop erative management of comatose patients with fulminant hepatic failure and warrants further study.
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s an indication for transplantation, fulminant A hepatic failure (FHF) accounts for approximately 7% of the liver transplantations currently performed in the United States and This percentage is very small in comparison with the number of transplants performed for chronic liver disease, but FHF domi