Liver dysfunction plays a significant role in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients’ morbidity and mortality. Metabolic, hemodynamic and inflammatory factors contribute in liver damage. Hemorrhagic shock, septic shock, multiple organ dysfunction, acute respiratory dysfunction, metabolic disorders, myocardial dysfunction, infection from hepatitis virus, and therapeutic measures such as blood tr...

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The development of systemic inflammation, acute lung injury, and multiple organ failure after a major thermal injury, as well as nonthermal forms of trauma, remain relatively common causes of morbidity and mortality. During the past two decades, increasing recognition that the ischemic gut may contribute to the development of sepsis and organ failure in burn patients, as well as other criticall...