Liver transplantation for fulminant hepatic failure
โ Scribed by David H. Van Thiel; John Brems; Abdul Nadir; Ramazan Idilman; Alessandra Colantoni; David Holt; Steven Edelstein
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 429 KB
- Volume
- 37
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0944-1174
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
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
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