Successful Management of Acute Liver Failure Patients Waiting for Liver Transplantation by On-Line Hemodiafiltration with an Arteriovenous Fistula

Successful Management of Acute Liver Failure Patients Waiting for Liver Transplantation by On-Line Hemodiafiltration with an Arteriovenous Fistula

On-line hemodiafiltration (OLHDF) is one of the treatment options in the management of acute liver failure (ALF) in Japan. It is essential to avoid infection in the management of ALF. In fact, infection is one of the prognostic factors in ALF. In this report, we present a middle-aged Japanese man wi...

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Main Authors: Yuki Haga, Shin Yasui, Tatsuo Kanda, Noriyuki Hattori, Toru Wakamatsu, Masato Nakamura, Reina Sasaki, Shuang Wu, Shingo Nakamoto, Makoto Arai, Hitoshi Maruyama, Masayuki Ohtsuka, Shigeto Oda, Masaru Miyazaki, Osamu Yokosuka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2016-05-01
Series:Case Reports in Gastroenterology
Subjects:
Infection
Acute liver failure
On-line hemodiafiltration
Online Access:http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/445186

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