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Hyper-Urgent Liver Transplantation for Posttraumatic and Surgical Iatrogenic Acute Liver Failure

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Operative Techniques and Recent Advances in Acute Care and Emergency Surgery

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Abbreviations

ACLF:

Acute-on-chronic liver failure

ALF:

Acute liver failure

BDI:

Bile duct injury

ELS:

Extracorporeal liver support

HPB:

Hepato-pancreato-biliary

hu-LT:

Hyper-urgent liver transplantation

IVC:

Inferior vena cava

LT:

Liver transplantation

MOF:

Multiple organ failure

PNF:

Primary nonfunction

PV:

Portal vein

TLS:

Toxic liver syndrome

TPCS:

Temporary portocaval shunt

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  1. Department of General Surgery and Transplantation, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy

    Andrea Lauterio, Stefano Di Sandro, Riccardo De Carlis, Arianna Ciravegna & Luciano De Carlis

  2. Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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  3. Department of Emergency, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy

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Lauterio, A., Di Sandro, S., De Carlis, R., Ciravegna, A., Aseni, P., De Carlis, L. (2019). Hyper-Urgent Liver Transplantation for Posttraumatic and Surgical Iatrogenic Acute Liver Failure. In: Aseni, P., De Carlis, L., Mazzola, A., Grande, A.M. (eds) Operative Techniques and Recent Advances in Acute Care and Emergency Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95114-0_54

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