title: Classification of the etiologies of acute liver failure in Japan: A report by the Intractable Hepato-Biliary Diseases Study Group of Japan.
abstract: The Intractable Liver Diseases Study Group of Japan, supported by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, established novel diagnostic criteria for "acute liver failure" in 2011. In these criteria, patients without histological findings of hepatitis are included in the disease entity of "acute liver failure", as in Europe and the USA. In this report, classification criteria for the etiologies of "acute liver failure" in Japan are proposed.
authors: Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Saitama Medical University, Moroyama-machi, Japan.
authors: Satoshi
authors: S
authors: Mochida
authors: Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, School of Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan.
authors: Yasuhiro
authors: Y
authors: Takikawa
authors: Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Saitama Medical University, Moroyama-machi, Japan.
authors: Nobuaki
authors: N
authors: Nakayama
authors: Department of Digestive and Life-Style Related Disease, Health Research Course, Human and Environmental Sciences, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan.
authors: Makoto
authors: M
authors: Oketani
authors: Department of Gastroenterology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan.
authors: Takafumi
authors: T
authors: Naiki
authors: Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Keio University, Japan, Shinano-machi.
authors: Yoshiyuki
authors: Y
authors: Yamagishi
authors: Department of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
authors: Keiichi
authors: K
authors: Fujiwara
authors: Department of Gastroenterology, Shizuoka Hospital, Juntendo University, Izunokuni, Japan.
authors: Takafumi
authors: T
authors: Ichida
authors: Kagoshima City Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan.
authors: Hirohito
authors: H
authors: Tsubouchi
keywords: HBV; autoimmune hepatitis; drug-induced liver injury; fulminant hepatic failure; fulminant hepatitis