Intensive care of patients with acute liver failure: recommendations of the U.S. Acute Liver Failure Study Group.

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Published in Crit Care Med on November 01, 2007

Authors

R Todd Stravitz1, Andreas H Kramer, Timothy Davern, A Obaid S Shaikh, Stephen H Caldwell, Ravindra L Mehta, Andres T Blei, Robert J Fontana, Brendan M McGuire, Lorenzo Rossaro, Alastair D Smith, William M Lee, Acute Liver Failure Study Group

Author Affiliations

1: Section of Hepatology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA. rstravit@hsc.vcu.edu

Associated clinical trials:

Safety Study of Ornithine Phenylacetate to Treat Patients With Acute Liver Failure (STOP-ALF) | NCT01548690

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