Diseases

Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure

Sudden liver failure in the presence of underlying compensated chronic LIVER DISEASE (e.g., LIVER CIRRHOSIS; HEPATITIS; and liver injury and failure) due to a precipitating acute hepatic insult.

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Abstract

Sudden liver failure in the presence of underlying compensated chronic LIVER DISEASE (e.g., LIVER CIRRHOSIS; HEPATITIS; and liver injury and failure) due to a precipitating acute hepatic insult.

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  • Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF)
  • Liver Failure, Acute-On-Chronic
  • Acute On Chronic Liver Failure
  • Acute On Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF)
  • Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failures
  • Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failures (ACLF)
  • Failure, Acute-On-Chronic Liver
  • Failure, Acute-On-Chronic Liver (ACLF)
  • Failures, Acute-On-Chronic Liver
  • Failures, Acute-On-Chronic Liver (ACLF)
  • Liver Failure, Acute On Chronic
  • Liver Failure, Acute-On-Chronic (ACLF)
  • Liver Failures, Acute-On-Chronic
  • Liver Failures, Acute-On-Chronic (ACLF)

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35 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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History Note

2015

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Previous Indexing

  • End Stage Liver Disease (2010-2014)
  • Liver Failure, Acute (1995-2014)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D065290. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D065290
  2. Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65549985