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8629619

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-6-25
pubmed:abstractText
Liver failure, especially in its acute form, is a medical emergency that quickly leads to failure of multiple other organs. Many of these end-organ failures can be supported temporarily by drugs or medical devices, but the support is invariably short-lived if liver function is not restored. In most instances, liver function can only be restored by transplantation, although patients with acute disease have the potential to recover by regeneration ("spontaneous recovery"). Unfortunately, spontaneous recovery from acute liver failure is uncommon, so the two most important aspects of patient management are highly skilled intensive care and early recognition of patients in need of liver transplantation. Even under these circumstances, the mortality of liver failure remains high because we have no easy way of replacing liver function on demand and donor organs are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain in time. The development of techniques for liver assist offer the possibility that patients with liver failure will become a simple management problem, analogous to the options available in the treatment of acute and chronic renal failure.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0272-6386
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
27
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
605-21
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Treatment of hepatic failure--1996: current concepts and progress toward liver dialysis.
pubmed:affiliation
Amphioxus, Inc, Houston, TX, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review