'First week' is the crucial period for deciding living donor liver transplantation in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure.
Ashok ChoudhuryRajan VijayaraghavanRakhi MaiwallManoj KumarZhongping DuanChen YuSaeed Sadiq HamidWasim JafriAmna Subhan ButtHarshad DevarbhaviQin NingKe MaSoek-Siam TanAkash ShuklaRadhakrishna DhimanAjay DusejaSunil TanejaC E EapenAshish GoelSombat TreeprasertsukMamun Al-MahtabHasmik GhazinyanDong Joon KimManoj K SahuGuan Huei LeeLaurentius A LesmanaRinaldi Cosmas LesmanaSamir ShahZaigham AbbasJose D SollanoP N RaoAnand KulkarniGamal ShihaAnanta ShresthaAKadir DokmeciMan Fung YuenDiana Alcantara PayawalKemal Fariz KalistaV G Mohan PrasadGeorge K LauFazal KarimPriyanka JainGuresh KumarVinod AroraViniyendra PamechaPiyush SinhaShiv Kumar Sarinnull nullPublished in: Hepatology international (2021)
ACLF is a rapidly progressive disease and risk stratification within the first week of hospitalization is needed. 'Emergent LT' should be defined in the first week in the ACLF patients; the transplant window for improving survival in a live donor setting.