Pediatric acute liver failure: An experience of a pediatric intensive care unit from resource limited settings.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Pediatric acute liver failure is a rare and serious disease. Though liver transplantation is considered as the established treatment option for patients who are unlikely to recover with medical management, however, with the advancement of medical care there has been an increase in spontaneous regeneration of liver, obviating the need for liver transplantation. We identified the etiologies, outcome and prognostic factors of acute liver failure and the validity of the existing liver transplantation criteria to predict the outcome of pediatric acute liver failure.

Materials and methods

This was a retrospective study done from January 2014 to December 2019 in a tertiary pediatric critical care unit in South India. All children aged between 1 month to 18 years admitt

SUBMITTER: Amatya P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9478462 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature