Emergency Liver Transplant Effective for Severe Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure
1-year survival reached 78% for patients who received an emergency transplant
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1-year survival reached 78% for patients who received an emergency transplant
Experts said findings should serve as a 'wakeup call' to change lifestyle factors associated with the disease - namely alcohol and obesity - and called for more liver ultrasounds for early detection.
Adding a prophylactic antibiotic to corticosteroid therapy does not improve survival in severe alcohol-related hepatitis and should be reserved for patients with active infection.
Intervention reduced infections, but not mortality; no improvement on other endpoints
Inquest says Martha Mills would probably not have died of sepsis if King’s College hospital doctors had heeded warnings