And now that I think about it portal hypertension not uncommon in acute severe liver disease without failure as well as chronic liver disease.
In any event ould not be a good criteria in any event by itself.
Still wonder if acute-on-chronic (i.e. acute decompensation) of cirrhosis might be ccontained in one of the numerous concept mappings to acute liver failure.
I am replying as new post because I seem to be making an error by just replying to the email. I get messages that I made an error and reply has not content.
You can just reply to the email. Wiki will put it in correctly. The only thing is you can’t easily use the formatting, therefore I usually don’t do it that way.
The problem with the acute liver failure is that we really don’t know the pathogenesis of that effect. And we don’t know (or I don’t know) whether a drug-induced liver failure may happen as an acute on chronic effect, it probably can. The reason folks focus so much on the acute-out-of-the-blue one is that it can be devastating: It gets a lot of attention when a patient with no prior damage to the liver suddenly develops a fulminant liver failure, sometimes resulting in the need for a transplantation or death.