Survival in Infection-Related Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure Is Defined by Extrahepatic Organ Failures

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Jasmohan S. Bajaj · Virginia Commonwealth University

Jacqueline G. O’Leary · Baylor University Medical Center

K. Rajender Reddy · University of Pennsylvania

Florence Wong · University of Toronto

Scott W. Biggins · University of Colorado Denver

Heather Patton · University of California, San Diego

Michael B. Fallon

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Using multicenter study data in hospitalized decompensated infected cirrhosis patients, I-ACLF defined by the presence of two or more organ failures using simple definitions is predictive of poor survival.

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Liver Disease and Transplantation Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology

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Published in: Hepatology

Volume 60, Issue 1, pp. 250-256

DOI: 10.1002/hep.27077

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Survival in Infection-Related Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure Is Defined by Extrahepatic Organ Failures

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