"Liver Failure, Acute" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A form of rapid-onset LIVER FAILURE, also known as fulminant hepatic failure, caused by severe liver injury or massive loss of HEPATOCYTES. It is characterized by sudden development of liver dysfunction and JAUNDICE. Acute liver failure may progress to exhibit cerebral dysfunction even HEPATIC COMA depending on the etiology that includes hepatic ISCHEMIA, drug toxicity, malignant infiltration, and viral hepatitis such as post-transfusion HEPATITIS B and HEPATITIS C.
Descriptor ID |
D017114
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MeSH Number(s) |
C06.552.308.500.750
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Concept/Terms |
Liver Failure, Acute- Liver Failure, Acute
- Failure, Acute Liver
- Fulminating Hepatic Failure
- Fulminating Hepatic Failures
- Hepatic Failure, Fulminating
- Hepatic Failures, Fulminating
- Liver Failure, Fulminant
- Fulminant Liver Failure
- Fulminant Liver Failures
- Liver Failures, Fulminant
- Hepatic Failure, Acute
- Acute Hepatic Failure
- Failure, Acute Hepatic
- Hepatic Failure, Fulminant
- Fulminant Hepatic Failure
- Fulminant Hepatic Failures
- Hepatic Failures, Fulminant
- Acute Liver Failure
- Fulminating Liver Failure
- Fulminating Liver Failures
- Liver Failure, Fulminating
- Liver Failures, Fulminating
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1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Liver Failure, Acute" by people in Profiles.
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Yoon U, Lai M, Nguyen T, Elia E. A 36-Year-Old Woman with Acute Liver Failure Following Acetaminophen Overdose, Raised INR of 8.7, and Normal Blood Viscosity Measured by Rotational Thromboelastometry (ROTEM). Am J Case Rep. 2023 Jan 31; 24:e938500.
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Rodgers SK, Horrow MM. Acute (fulminant) liver failure: a clinical and imaging review. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2021 07; 46(7):3117-3127.
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Asgari S, Chaturvedi N, Scepanovic P, Hammer C, Semmo N, Giostra E, M?llhaupt B, Angus P, Thompson AJ, Moradpour D, Fellay J. Human genomics of acute liver failure due to hepatitis B virus infection: An exome sequencing study in liver transplant recipients. J Viral Hepat. 2019 02; 26(2):271-277.
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Chapin CA, Burn T, Meijome T, Loomes KM, Melin-Aldana H, Kreiger PA, Whitington PF, Behrens EM, Alonso EM. Indeterminate pediatric acute liver failure is uniquely characterized by a CD103+ CD8+ T-cell infiltrate. Hepatology. 2018 09; 68(3):1087-1100.
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Lunsford KE, Bodzin AS, Reino DC, Wang HL, Busuttil RW. Dangerous dietary supplements: Garcinia cambogia-associated hepatic failure requiring transplantation. World J Gastroenterol. 2016 Dec 07; 22(45):10071-10076.
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Reddy SS, Civan JM. From Child-Pugh to Model for End-Stage Liver Disease: Deciding Who Needs a Liver Transplant. Med Clin North Am. 2016 May; 100(3):449-64.
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Glorioso JM, Mao SA, Rodysill B, Mounajjed T, Kremers WK, Elgilani F, Hickey RD, Haugaa H, Rose CF, Amiot B, Nyberg SL. Reply to: "Pivotal preclinical trial of the spheroid reservoir bioartificial liver". J Hepatol. 2015 Oct; 63(4):1052-3.
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Glorioso JM, Mao SA, Rodysill B, Mounajjed T, Kremers WK, Elgilani F, Hickey RD, Haugaa H, Rose CF, Amiot B, Nyberg SL. Pivotal preclinical trial of the spheroid reservoir bioartificial liver. J Hepatol. 2015 Aug; 63(2):388-98.
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Cress CM, Malliah A, Herrine SK. Image of the month. Fulminant hepatic failure caused by Amanita phalloides toxicity. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2011 Feb; 9(2):A26.
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Ford RM, Sakaria SS, Subramanian RM. Critical care management of patients before liver transplantation. Transplant Rev (Orlando). 2010 Oct; 24(4):190-206.