The systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) is a term used to describe the
physiologic changes that occur in response to a wide range of insults and often leads to …

Liver dysfunction plays a significant role in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients morbidity
and mortality. Metabolic, hemodynamic and inflammatory factors contribute in liver damage …

Organ dysfunction or overt failure is a commonplace event in the critically ill affecting up to
70% of patients during their stay in the ICU. The outcome depends on the resolution of …

Systemic inflammation contributes to significant morbidity in the ICU. With its ability to
generate antiinflammatory acute-phase proteins, cytokines via Kupffer cells, and recently …

Liver dysfunction is common in the intensive care unit (ICU) and in the postoperative patient.
A recent prospective study of 38,036 patients admitted to 32 ICUs over a 4-year period …

Systemic inflammation contributes to multiple organ dysfunction, which remains a common
pathway of intensive care unit morbidity. Organ interactions, with the liver providing a central …

Shock liver describes a collecting pool of critically ill patients in whom the elevation of liver
function tests or overt hepatic dysfunction is apparent. Different grades of shock liver affect …

Recent studies have revealed liver dysfunction as an early event in sepsis. Sepsis-
associated liver dysfunction is mainly resulted from systemic or microcirculatory …

The liver has long been known to play a central role in critical illness. Hippocrates
appreciated that jaundice portends a poor prognosis and that this process can result from …

Cirrhotic patients are prone to develop life-threatening complications that require emergency
care and ICU admission. They can present specific decompensations related to cirrhosis …