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Causes of Liver Dysfunction in Critical Illness
ACUTE LIVER FAILURE Acute hepatitis with jaundice and coagulopathy without hepatic encephalopathy is referred to as severe acute hepatitis. The prognosis is generally good. The term fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) was originally defi ned as a clinical syndrome developing as a result of massive necrosis of liver cells or any other sudden and severe impairment of hepatic function (Trey and Davids...
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Cerebral dysfunction and injury in the ICU presents as focal neurologic deficits, seizures, coma, and delirium. These syndromes may result from a primary brain insult, such as stroke or trauma, but commonly are a complication of a systemic insult, such as cardiac arrest, hypoxemia, sepsis, metabolic derangements, and pharmacologic exposures. Many survivors of critical illness have cognitive imp...
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OBJECTIVE Tight glycemic control (TGC) in critically ill patients is associated with an increased risk of hypoglycemia. Whether those short episodes of hypoglycemia are associated with adverse morbidity and mortality is a matter of discussion. Using a case-control study design, we investigated whether hypoglycemia under TGC causes permanent neurocognitive dysfunction in patients surviving criti...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0310-057X,1448-0271
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x9101900203