IBCC – Acute on Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF)

xloma.fota.13 shared this article with you from Inoreader IBCC – Acute on Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF) Via EMCrit Blog - Emergency Department Critical Care Acute on Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF) refers to decompensated cirrhosis causing failure of at least two organs (e.g. hepatic encephalopathy, hepatorenal syndrome, shock, or respiratory failure).  It may be useful to conceptualize these patients as having ACLF (rather than, for example, hepatic encephalopathy plus hepatorenal syndrome), because this provides a more accurate global understanding of […] EMCrit Project by Josh Farkas. View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.