Acute liver failure
Open Access
- 1 March 1977
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Anaesthesia
- Vol. 32 (3), 228-239
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1977.tb11600.x
Abstract
Acute liver failure involves disturbances of all major organ systems. The pathophysiology of these disturbances are reviewed and details of management for each system is discussed in clinical work in a special Liver Failure Unit is used to derive principles of treatment, and the use of extracorporeal charcoal haemoperfusion is outlined.Keywords
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