Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a distinct clinical syndrome characterized by liver failure due to an acute hepatic injury on an underlying chronic liver disease with high 28-day mortality ...

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Acute liver failure (ALF) is a syndrome of diverse etiology, in which patients without previously recognized liver disease sustain a liver injury that results in rapid loss of hepatic function.

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Acute liver failure is a rare but life-threatening critical illness that occurs most often in patients who do not have preexisting liver disease. With an incidence of fewer than 10 cases per million ...