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Moderate Hypothermia for Uncontrolled Intracranial Hypertension in Acute Liver Failure Lancet 354:1164-1168, Jalan,R.,et al, 1999 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract We studied seven consecutive patients aged 16-46 years (five women, four candidates for orthotopic liver transplantation [OLT]) with acute liver failure who fulfilled criteria for poor-prognosis liver failure and had increased intracranial pressure that was unresponsive to two treatments with mannitol and ultrafiltration. Moderate hypothermia is useful in the treatment of uncontrolled increase in intracranial pressure in patients with acute liver failure and may serve as a bridge to OLT.

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