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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827239503321

Titolo

Critical care in acute liver failure / / editors, Roger Williams, Julia Wendon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Future Medicine Ltd., , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-78084-255-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 177 pages) : coloured illustrations

Disciplina

616.362

Soggetti

Liver - Failure - Treatment

Critical care medicine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Definition, pattern of disease and prognosis / William Bernal -- Histopathological basis of syndrome / Alberto Quaglia & Bernard Portmann -- Worldwide differences in acute liver failure / Shalimar, Subrat K. Acharya & William M. Lee -- Investigation and diagnostic pathways / Heather Patton & Robert G. Gish -- Disease-specific treatments / Catherine Paugam-Burtz, Emmanuel Weiss & Richard Moreau -- General supportive management / Alexander Wilmer & Frederik Nevens -- Management of encephalopathy and cerebral edema / Fin Stolze Larsen & Peter Bjerring -- Inflammation, infection and renal failure / Darren G. Craig & Kenneth Simpson -- Acute liver failure coagulation disturbances and need for treatment / Andrew K. Burroughs -- Selection and results of liver transplantation / Sarah A. Hughes & John O'Grady -- Acute liver failure in children / Naresh P. Shanmugam & Anil Dhawan -- Plasmapheresis and extracorporeal liver support / Roger Williams & Julia Wendon.

Sommario/riassunto

With many years of top-level experience in the field, Roger Williams and Julia Wendon have compiled this concise volume, contributing both as editors and as authors, and have invited other contributors on the basis of their important contributions and expertise in ALF. The outcome is a rounded and clearly formatted account of the subject, in thirteen chapters, that will help in obtaining the best possible future care for desperately ill patients.