Intensive Care Management of Pediatric Acute Liver Failure
- 1 May 2017
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
- Vol. 64 (5), 660-670
- https://doi.org/10.1097/mpg.0000000000001441
Abstract
Pediatric acute liver failure is rare but life-threatening illness that occurs in children without preexisting liver disease. The rarity of the disease, along with its severity and heterogeneity, presents unique clinical challenges to the physicians providing care for pediatric patients with acute liver failure. In this review, practical clinical approaches to the care of critically ill children with acute liver failure are discussed with an organ system-specific approach. The underlying pathophysiological processes, major areas of uncertainty, and approaches to the critical care management of pediatric acute liver failure are also reviewed.This publication has 135 references indexed in Scilit:
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