Prevalence and Short-term Mortality of Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure: a national cohort study from the USA

Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a recently recognized condition characterized by multi-organ failure in patients with decompensated cirrhosis and associated with high short-term mortality[1 –3]

Source: Journal of Hepatology - December 24, 2018 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Ruben Hernaez, Jennifer R. Kramer, Yan Liu, Aylin Tansel, Yamini Natarajan, Khozema B. Hussain, Pere Gines, Elsa Sola, Richard Moreau, Alexander Gerbes, Hashem B. El-Serag, Fasiha Kanwal Source Type: research