Successful Pharmacotherapy for Multiple Acute Decompensation Events in a Cirrhotic Patient with Acute-on-chronic Liver Failure: A Case Report

Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a potentially lethal syndrome, which is characterized by an acute deterioration of liver function in patients with chronic liver diseases. The present paper reported that an alcoholic cirrhotic patient with ACLF developed septic shock, hydrothorax, ascites, h...

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Autores principales: Xu, Xiangbo, Bai, Zhaohui, Zhao, Qingchun, Li, Hongyu, Shi, Qiang, Deng, Jiao, Zhang, Jingqiao, Guo, Xiaozhong, Qi, Xingshun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sciendo 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6326027/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30637207
http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jtim-2018-0035
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Sumario:Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a potentially lethal syndrome, which is characterized by an acute deterioration of liver function in patients with chronic liver diseases. The present paper reported that an alcoholic cirrhotic patient with ACLF developed septic shock, hydrothorax, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy, acute kidney injury, and acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding at the same hospitalization and was successfully rescued by pharmacotherapy alone without any invasive intervention.

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