• Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. · Aug 2019

    Review

    Critically Ill Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease.

    • Sara Crager.
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, 924 Westwood Boulevard, Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA 90049, USA; Division of Critical Care, Department of Anesthesia, University of California Los Angeles-David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: scrager@mednet.ucla.edu.
    • Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. 2019 Aug 1; 37 (3): 511-527.

    AbstractPatients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD) who require intensive care unit admission have high rates of mortality. This article reviews the pathophysiology and emergency department assessment and management of the most frequent conditions and complications encountered in critically ill ESLD patients including hepatic encephalopathy, gastrointestinal bleeding, sepsis and bacterial peritonitis, hepatorenal syndrome, severe coagulopathy, and hepatic hydrothorax.Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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