Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure

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Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure

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General | Monitoring & Investigations | Therapies

General

General

Saner. Navigating the Labyrinth: Intensive Care Challenges for Patients with Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure. J Clin Med 2024;13(2):506
Pearson. Decompensated liver cirrhosis. Anaesth Intensive Care Med 2024;25(1):42-47
Kumar. Acute-on-chronic liver failure: Terminology, mechanisms and management. Clin Mol Hepatol 2023;29:670-689
Karvellas. Management of the acute on chronic liver failure in the intensive care unit. Liver Int 2023;epublished June 27th
Luo. Acute-on-chronic liver failure: far to go—a review. Crit Care 2023;27:259

Prognostication

Background

Pathophysiology

Engelmann. Mechanisms of immunity in acutely decompensated cirrhosis and acute-on-chronic liver failure. Liver Int 2023;epublished June 27th

Conditions

Conditions

Complications

Acute Kidney Injury

Yoo. Acute kidney injury in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure: clinical significance and management. Kidney Res Clin Pract 2023;42(3):286-297

Hyperammonaemia

Duarte. What every Intensivist should know about the role of ammonia in liver failure. J Crit Care 2023;epublished November 7th

HepatoCardioRenal Syndrome

Koratala. HepatoCardioRenal syndrome: integrating pathophysiology with clinical decision-making via POCUS. Cardiorenal Med 2025;epublished February 11th

Monitoring & Investigations

General

Marginean. Challenges in Diagnosis and Therapeutic Approach of Acute on Chronic Liver Failure—A Review of Current Evidence. Biomedicines 2023;11(7):1840

Therapies

General

Extracorporeal Support

Ballester. Extracorporeal liver support and liver transplantation for acute-on-chronic liver failure. Liver Int 2023;epublished June 14th

Plasma Exchange

Goel. Growing Evidence for Survival Benefit with Plasma Exchange to Treat Liver Failure. J Clin Exp Hepatol 2023;13(6):1061-1073