Liver transplantation for acute liver failure: are there thresholds not to be crossed?
β Scribed by Hoyer, Dieter P.; Munteanu, Martin; Canbay, Ali; Hartmann, Matthias; Gallinat, Anja; Paul, Andreas; Saner, Fuat H.
- Book ID
- 124096529
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 194 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0934-0874
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Acute liver failure is a catastrophic illness that can rapidly progress to death in a previously healthy person with no known liver disease. Treatment is generally supportive, but the outcome is unpredictable. Although a variable proportion of patients can recover spontaneously, others may continue
We read with interest the article by Campsen et al. 1 describing the outcomes of adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) for acute liver failure (ALF) in the United States. They described 2 concerns in applying LDLT for ALF: appropriate donor evaluation during the rapid evolution of