The Coagulopathy of Acute Liver Failure and Implications for Intracranial Pressure Monitoring

Brain water and acute liver failure: The

Brain water and acute liver failure: The emerging role of intracranial pressure monitoring

✍ Jeremiah P. Donovan; Byers W. Shaw Jr.; Alan N. Langnas; Michael F. Sorrell 📂 Article 📅 1992 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 227 KB 👁 1 views

Intracranial pressure monitoring and liv

Intracranial pressure monitoring and liver transplantation for fulminant hepatic failure

✍ Steven D. Lidofsky; Nathan M. Bass; Marie C. Prager; Denna E. Washington; Alexan 📂 Article 📅 1992 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 846 KB

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

Intracranial pressure monitoring in acut

Intracranial pressure monitoring in acute liver failure. A procedure with clear indications

✍ Julia A. Wendon; Fin Stolze Larsen 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 55 KB 👁 1 views

tures (etiology, hemodynamic condition, arterial ammonia, spontaneous activity of coagulation factors, serum creatinine, natremia) allowing to exclude from monitoring those patients with the highest probability of spontaneous survival. However, the best answer to the abovementioned challenge is, whe

Intracranial pressure monitoring in pati

Intracranial pressure monitoring in patients with acute liver failure: A questionable invasive surveillance

✍ Jacques Bernuau; François Durand 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 73 KB

Monitoring of intracranial pressure (ICP) in acute liver failure (ALF) is controversial as a result of the reported complication risk (approximately 20%) and limited therapeutic options for intracranial hypertension. Using prospectively collected information from 332 patients with ALF and severe enc

Intracranial pressure and acute liver fa

Intracranial pressure and acute liver failure: A “finger on the pulse”

✍ John G. O'Grady 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 54 KB

The encephalopathy caused by acute liver failure is secondary to metabolic change that reverses completely after spontaneous recovery or salvage with liver transplantation. However, advanced encephalopathy in some patients is also associated with physical brain injury with the potential to cause irr

Complications and use of intracranial pr

Complications and use of intracranial pressure monitoring in patients with acute liver failure and severe encephalopathy

✍ Javier Vaquero; Robert J. Fontana; Anne M. Larson; Nathan M.T. Bass; Timothy J. 📂 Article 📅 2005 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 256 KB

Monitoring of intracranial pressure (ICP) in acute liver failure (ALF) is controversial as a result of the reported complication risk (approximately 20%) and limited therapeutic options for intracranial hypertension. Using prospectively collected information from 332 patients with ALF and severe enc