TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 53. Preoperative Evaluation of Liver Disease
A1  - Qamar, Amir A.
A1  - Grace, Norman D.
A2  - McKean, Sylvia C.
A2  - Ross, John J.
A2  - Dressler, Daniel D.
A2  - Brotman, Daniel J.
A2  - Ginsberg, Jeffrey S.
PY  - 2012
T2  - Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine
AB  - Evaluation  of  patients  with  liver  disease  prior  to  surgery  is  crucial  to  estimating  perioperative  morbidity  and  mortality  and  to  improving  outcomes.  The  operative  risk  of  liver  disease  can  be  related  to  the  rapid  changes  in  liver  function  that  can  occur  in  acute  hepatitis  or  can  be  related  to  chronic  complications  of  portal  hypertension  and  parenchymal  liver  disease  in  patients  with  cirrhosis.  Therefore,  establishment  of  a  risk  profile  should  be  based  on  the  etiology  of  the  underlying  liver  disease  and  the  degree  of  hepatic  decompensation  associated  with  the  presence  of  cirrhosis  and  portal  hypertension.  This  chapter  explains  how  to  assess  and  prepare  patients  with  liver  disease  for  surgery  and  provides  a  framework  for  predicting  operative  morbidity  and  mortality.  
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PB  - The McGraw-Hill Companies
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/24
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56194689
ER  -