Infectious complications and timing for liver transplantation in autoimmune acute liver failure in Japan: a subanalysis based on nationwide surveys between 2010 and 2015.

A critical point for evaluating the efficacy of CS treatment and switching to LT is at most 2-week after diagnosis of ALF and introduction of CS. More important, we should accelerate the point and prepare for LT in cases of ALF with coma ≥ II and LOHF, and we should have performed LT by then at the latest in case of failure to improve.