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Acta médica Grupo Ángeles
Print version ISSN 1870-7203
Abstract
DELGADO AYALA, Francisco et al. Acute over chronic hepatic insufficiency. Acta méd. Grupo Ángeles [online]. 2021, vol.19, n.4, pp.524-534. Epub Aug 01, 2022. ISSN 1870-7203. https://doi.org/10.35366/102540.
There is a large population in Mexico with cirrhosis, which is among the first causes of death in our country. Patients with liver disease can be classified as compensated or decompensated, but there is a small portion of patients with liver disease to whom an insult added to their disease will lead them to a state of multiple organ failure, regardless of the reason for cirrhosis or its stage. This evolution that differs from those already known, is known as acute on chronic liver failure and is a newly described pathology. The importance of knowing this pathology is the prognosis and the management for the correct evolution of this type of patient.
Materials and
methods: A search was conducted on PubMed, Scholar Google, and the journal of Internal Medicine of Mexico, between 1995-2020. The main search terms were “cirrosis”, OR “descompensación hepática”, OR “insuficiencia hepática aguda sobre crónica”, OR “síndrome hepatorrenal”, OR “decompensated cirrhosis”, OR “acute on chronic liver failure”, OR “hepatorenal syndrome”. Additional items were identified by internet research.
Keywords : Chronic liver failure; cirrhosis; organ failure.