"Liver Failure, Acute" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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A form of rapid-onset LIVER FAILURE, also known as fulminant hepatic failure, caused by severe liver injury or massive loss of HEPATOCYTES. It is characterized by sudden development of liver dysfunction and JAUNDICE. Acute liver failure may progress to exhibit cerebral dysfunction even HEPATIC COMA depending on the etiology that includes hepatic ISCHEMIA, drug toxicity, malignant infiltration, and viral hepatitis such as post-transfusion HEPATITIS B and HEPATITIS C.
Concept/Terms
Liver Failure, Acute- Liver Failure, Acute
- Failure, Acute Liver
- Fulminating Hepatic Failure
- Fulminating Hepatic Failures
- Hepatic Failure, Fulminating
- Hepatic Failures, Fulminating
- Liver Failure, Fulminant
- Fulminant Liver Failure
- Fulminant Liver Failures
- Liver Failures, Fulminant
- Hepatic Failure, Acute
- Acute Hepatic Failure
- Failure, Acute Hepatic
- Hepatic Failure, Fulminant
- Fulminant Hepatic Failure
- Fulminant Hepatic Failures
- Hepatic Failures, Fulminant
- Acute Liver Failure
- Fulminating Liver Failure
- Fulminating Liver Failures
- Liver Failure, Fulminating
- Liver Failures, Fulminating
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Liver Failure, Acute" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Liver Failure, Acute" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
1998 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2003 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2004 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
2005 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
2006 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
2007 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2008 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
2009 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
2010 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
2011 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
2012 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
2013 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2014 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2016 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
2017 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
2018 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
2019 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2020 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
2021 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
2022 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Liver Failure, Acute" by people in Profiles.
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Evaluation of transcranial Doppler use in patients with acute liver failure listed for emergency liver transplantation. Clin Transplant. 2023 06; 37(6):e14975.
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Genotypic and phenotypic spectrum of infantile liver failure due to pathogenic TRMU variants. Genet Med. 2023 06; 25(6):100314.
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Is the indocyanine green clearance test useful in viral acute liver failure? Maybe! Acta Biomed. 2022 Aug 31; 93(4):e2022131.
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Pediatric Acute Liver Failure: A Clinicopathological Perspective. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2022 Jul-Aug; 25(4):361-379.
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Plasma and Platelet Transfusion Strategies in Critically Ill Children With Malignancy, Acute Liver Failure and/or Liver Transplantation, or Sepsis: From the Transfusion and Anemia EXpertise Initiative-Control/Avoidance of Bleeding. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2022 01 01; 23(13 Suppl 1 1S):e37-e49.
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Bridging to Allotransplantation-Is Pig Liver Xenotransplantation the Best Option? Transplantation. 2022 01 01; 106(1):26-36.
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Life-threatening acute liver failure and myocarditis needing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: Could it be therapeutic misadventure with paracetamol? J Paediatr Child Health. 2022 08; 58(8):1475-1478.
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A woman presenting with an unusual cause of fulminant liver failure and sepsis. Clin Res Hepatol Gastroenterol. 2022 03; 46(3):101836.
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Efficient intracellular delivery of proteins by a multifunctional chimaeric peptide in vitro and in vivo. Nat Commun. 2021 08 26; 12(1):5131.
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Liver involvement in neuroblastoma amplified sequence gene deficiency is not limited to acute injury: Fibrosis silently continues. Liver Int. 2021 10; 41(10):2433-2439.