Management of Acute on Chronic Liver Failure
2014
Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a distinct entity characterized by decompensation from an underlying chronic liver disease associated with organ failure that have high short-term mortality. But there are no universally accepted diagnostic criteria for ACLF. Regional Association for the study of liver and some study group have a different diagnostic criteria for ACLF, such as Asia-Pacific Association for the study of liver (APASL), the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease and the European Association for the Study of the Liver (AASLD/EASL) and EASL-Chronic Liver Failure Consortium (EASL-CLIF). The pathophysiology of ACLF is not understood completely but many researchers try to explain in a tale with PIRO (predisposition, infection/inflammation, responses, organ failure) concept for sepsis. We need more understanding for pathophysiology of ACLF to obtain new treatment method for ACLF with high mortality. Also we have to collect the epidemiologic data of ACLF in Korea.
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