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Preferred term

Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • 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.

Broader concept

Entry terms

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

In other languages

  • French

  • ACLF
  • Acute-on-chronic liver failure
  • Insuffisance hépatique aiguë sur chronique
  • Insuffisance hépatique aigüe sur hépatopathie chronique
  • Insuffisance hépatique aigüe sur une maladie chronique du foie

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-P0L4H8T1-7

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