Acute‐on‐chronic liver failure precipitated by hepatic injury is distinct from that precipitated by extrahepatic insults

Shi, Yu; Yang, Ying; Hu, Yaoren; Wu, Wei; Yang, Qiao; Zheng, Min; Zhang, Shun; Xu, Zhaojun; Wu, Yihua; Yan, Huadong; Chen, Zhi

doi:10.1002/hep.27795

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Acute‐on‐chronic liver failure precipitated by hepatic injury is distinct from that precipitated by extrahepatic insults

Published in Hepatology • Mar 20, 2015

Authors:

Yu Shi

Ying Yang

Yaoren Hu

Abstract

UNLABELLED: Patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) represent a heterogeneous population. The aim of the study is to identify distinct groups according to the etiologies of precipitating events. A total of 405 ACLF patients were identified from 1,361 patients with cirrhosis with acute de...

Subject

Liver failure

Medicine

Liver injury

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