Predictors of mortality among patients with compensated and decompensated liver cirrhosis: the role of bacterial infections and infection-related acute-on-chronic liver failure.

Sargenti, Konstantina; Prytz, Hanne; Nilsson, Emma A.; Kalaitzakis, Evangelos

doi:10.3109/00365521.2015.1017834

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Predictors of mortality among patients with compensated and decompensated liver cirrhosis: the role of bacterial infections and infection-related acute-on-chronic liver failure.

Author(s): Konstantina Sargenti ¹ , Hanne Prytz , Emma Nilsson , Evangelos Kalaitzakis

Publication date (Electronic): Jul 2015

Journal: Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Keywords: acute-on-chronic liver failure, bacterial infection, comorbidity, compensated cirrhosis, decompensated cirrhosis, healthcare-associated infection, hospital-acquired infection, organ failure, prognosis

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Population-based data on the impact of bacterial infections on the course of compensated and decompensated cirrhosis as well as the occurrence, predictors of infection-related acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) and its fatal outcome are limited.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Scand. J. Gastroenterol.

Title: Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

ISSN (Electronic): 1502-7708

ISSN (Print): 0036-5521

Publication date (Electronic): Jul 2015

Volume: 50

Issue: 7

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[1 ] Department of Gastroenterology, Skåne University Hospital, University of Lund , Lund , Sweden.

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DOI: 10.3109/00365521.2015.1017834

PubMed ID: 25697824

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Keywords: prognosis,organ failure,hospital-acquired infection,healthcare-associated infection,decompensated cirrhosis,compensated cirrhosis,comorbidity,bacterial infection,acute-on-chronic liver failure

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Keywords: prognosis, organ failure, hospital-acquired infection, healthcare-associated infection, decompensated cirrhosis, compensated cirrhosis, comorbidity, bacterial infection, acute-on-chronic liver failure

Predictors of mortality among patients with compensated and decompensated liver cirrhosis: the role of bacterial infections and infection-related acute-on-chronic liver failure.

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