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Thinking through acetaminophen hepatotoxicity and liver transplantation: Choosing worthy recipients

✍ Scribed by William M. Lee; Anne M. Larson; Juan Arenas


Book ID
102473506
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
60 KB
Volume
15
Category
Article
ISSN
1527-6465

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✦ Synopsis


Transplant selection committees make truly vital decisions on candidacy for liver transplantation. At times, they deal with insufficient data or are forced to use nonobjective criteria in their decision-making. This is particularly true for patients with acute liver failure (ALF) and perhaps even more evident for patients with acetaminophen (APAP)-related ALF. With ALF, time is of the essence, patients generally cannot be interviewed, and formal committee meetings are often eliminated.