title: Orthotopic liver transplantation for fulminant hepatic failure.
abstract: This paper presents the results of liver transplantation for fulminant hepatic failure in 31 patients qualified as UNOS-1 class (extra-urgent indication for transplantation), operated from January 1989 to April 2005. Twenty-one patients (61.8%) survived the 3-month postoperative period. Three-year survival rate with good liver graft function was 52.9% (18 patients). Before the transplantation, eight patients (23.5%) underwent hepatic dialysis using Fractionated Plasma Separation and Adsorption (FPSA) with the use of a Prometheus 4008H System. Liver transplantation remains the only life-saving procedure for the treatment of fulminant liver failure, regardless of its cause.
authors.affiliation: Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery, Warsaw Medical University, ul. Banacha 1a, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nyckowski
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Skwarek
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zieniewicz
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Patkowski
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alsharabi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wróblewski
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Remiszewski
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Smoter
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kotulski
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Korba
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Paczkowska
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Giercuszkiewicz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sańko-Resmer
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Paczek
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krawczyk
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D017114:Liver Failure, Acute / Q000601:surgery*; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods* / Q000401:mortality; D008875:Middle Aged; D016019:Survival Analysis; D014850:Waiting Lists