%0 Journal Article
%A Sendra, Carmen
%A Ampuero, Javier
%A Giraldez-Gallego, Alvaro 
%A Sousa, Jose Manuel
%A Serrano-Jimenez, Maria 
%A Romero-Gomez, Manuel
%T Case Report: Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure: Making the Diagnosis between Infection and Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis.
%D 2016
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/10076
%X Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) represents a reversible syndrome associated with high short-term mortality, characterized by acute decompensation in patients with chronic liver disease and extrahepatic organ failure. Diagnosis and prognosis assessment is based on a newly developed diagnostic score, the Chronic Liver Failure Consortium Organ Failure score. Susceptibility to infections and systemic inflammation are typical triggers. The authors report a case in which a patient with alcohol-related cirrhosis was admitted to the hospital with acute decompensation and developed ACLF during hospitalization. This case led to an evaluation of the underlying process causing ACLF: infection versus acute alcoholic hepatitis.
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