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The term acute liver failure (ALF) is frequently applied as a generic expression to describe
patients presenting with or developing an acute episode of liver dysfunction. In the context of …

Background: Acute liver failure (ALF) is a rare syndrome of severe, rapid-onset hepatic
dysfunction—without prior advanced liver disease—that is associated with high morbidity …

Acute liver failure is a rare and severe consequence of abrupt hepatocyte injury, and can
evolve over days or weeks to a lethal outcome. A variety of insults to liver cells result in a …

The present version of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD)
Position Paper represents a thorough overhaul from the previous version of 2005. In …

Acute liver failure (ALF) is a rare but challenging clinical syndrome with multiple causes; a
specific etiology cannot be identified in 15% of adult and 50% of pediatric cases. The course …

Acute liver failure (ALF) describes a clinical syndrome of rapid hepatocyte injury leading to
liver failure manifested by coagulopathy and encephalopathy in the absence of pre-existing …

High circulating ammonia concentrations are common in patients with acute liver failure
(ALF) and are associated with hepatic encephalopathy (HE) and intracranial hypertension …

Acute liver failure (ALF)(sometimes referred to as fulminant hepatic failure) is a clinical
syndrome from a variety of causes resulting from rapid loss in hepatocyte function, typically …