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Minimal effects of acute liver injury/acute liver failure on hemostasis as assessed by thromboelastography

2011; Elsevier BV; Volume: 56; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jhep.2011.04.020

ISSN

1600-0641

Autores

R. Todd Stravitz, Ton Lisman, Velimir A. Luketic, Richard K. Sterling, Puneet Puri, Michael Fuchs, Ashraf E.K. Ibrahim, William M. Lee, Arun J. Sanyal,

Tópico(s)

Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

Resumo

Patients with acute liver injury/failure (ALI/ALF) are assumed to have a bleeding diathesis on the basis of elevated INR; however, clinically significant bleeding is rare. We hypothesized that patients with ALI/ALF have normal hemostasis despite elevated INR.

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