title: [Management of decompensated liver cirrhosis in the intensive care unit].
abstract: Liver cirrhosis is the end-stage of long-standing chronic liver diseases. The occurrence of complications from liver cirrhosis increases the mortality risk, but the prognosis can be improved by optimal management in the intensive care unit (ICU). Defined diagnostic algorithms allow the etiology and presence of typical complications upon presentation to the ICU to be identified. Acute variceal bleeding requires endoscopic intervention, vasoactive drugs, antibiotics, supportive intensive care measures and, where necessary, urgent transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) procedure. Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis needs to be diagnosed and immediately treated in patients with ascites. Hepatorenal syndrome should be treated by albumin and terlipressin. In case of respiratory failure, differential diagnosis should not only consider pneumonia, pulmonary embolism and cardiac failure, but also hepatic hydrothorax, portopulmonary hypertension and hepatopulmonary syndrome. The feasibility of liver transplantation should be always discussed in patients with decompensated cirrhosis. Artificial liver support devices may only serve as a bridging procedure until transplant.
authors.affiliation: Medizinische Klinik III, Universitätsklinikum RWTH-Aachen, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074, Aachen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Lerschmacher
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Koch
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Streetz
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Trautwein
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tacke
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004932:Esophageal and Gastric Varices / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D006501:Hepatic Encephalopathy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D006530:Hepatorenal Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D011379:Prognosis
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