Open AccessChronic Liver Failure-Sequential Organ Failure Assessment is better than the Asia-Pacific Association for the Study of Liver criteria for defining acute-on-chronic liver failure and predicting outcome
Author(s) -
Radha K. Dhiman,
Swastik Agrawal,
Tulika Gupta,
Ajay Duseja,
Yogesh Chawla
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v20.i40.14934
Subject(s) - decompensation , medicine , cirrhosis , liver disease , chronic liver disease , model for end stage liver disease , alcoholic liver disease , gastroenterology , receiver operating characteristic , sepsis , liver transplantation , transplantation
To compare the utility of the Chronic Liver Failure-Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (CLIF-SOFA) and Asia-Pacific Association for the Study of Liver (APASL) definitions of acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) in predicting short-term prognosis of patients with ACLF.