Study examines liver transplantation after drug induced acute liver failure
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 19:07
in Health & Medicine
Liver transplantation offers a good chance for survival for patients with drug induced acute liver failure, however, certain pre-transplant factors are associated with worse outcomes. Patients who are on life support, who have elevated serum creatinine, and children whose liver failure was caused by antiepileptic drugs did not fare as well after transplantation. These findings are in the July issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by John Wiley and Sons. The article is also available online at Wiley Interscience...
Read the whole article on Science Centric
More from Science Centric
Related
- Study examines liver transplantation after drug induced acute liver failureWed, 1 Jul 2009, 13:25:31 EDT
- Acute kidney injury common after liver transplantationMon, 4 May 2009, 13:24:25 EDT
- Living donor liver transplants may drastically decrease mortality from liver failureThu, 4 Sep 2008, 16:08:21 EDT
- Extreme BMI cause for concern in liver transplantationTue, 4 Aug 2009, 14:35:45 EDT
- Help for liver transplant patients with small-for-size syndromeTue, 3 Feb 2009, 16:57:45 EST