| Literature DB >> 16504707 |
P Nyckowski1, A Skwarek, K Zieniewicz, W Patkowski, A Alsharabi, T Wróblewski, P Remiszewski, P Smoter, M Kotulski, M Korba, A Paczkowska, D Giercuszkiewicz, J Sańko-Resmer, L Paczek, M Krawczyk.
Abstract
This paper presents the results of liver transplantation for fulminant hepatic failure in 31 patients qualified as UNOS-1 class (extra-urgent indication for transplantation), operated from January 1989 to April 2005. Twenty-one patients (61.8%) survived the 3-month postoperative period. Three-year survival rate with good liver graft function was 52.9% (18 patients). Before the transplantation, eight patients (23.5%) underwent hepatic dialysis using Fractionated Plasma Separation and Adsorption (FPSA) with the use of a Prometheus 4008H System. Liver transplantation remains the only life-saving procedure for the treatment of fulminant liver failure, regardless of its cause.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 16504707 DOI： 10.1016/j.transproceed.2005.12.010
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Transplant Proc ISSN： 0041-1345 Impact factor: 1.066