Multiple Systems Organ Failure
Subtitle: Hepatic Regulation of Systemic Host Defense
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: January 15, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780824790592
Subjects: Hepatology; Medical / Nursing; Diseases Of The Liver And Biliary Tract; Medical; Multiple Organ Failure; Critical Care; Gastroenterology; Immunology; Medical / Gastroenterology; Liver; Pathophysiology
First sentence: Multiple systems organ failure (MSOF) is a complex clinicopathologic syndrome occurring in up to 15% of critically ill patients after initially successful resuscitation from severe infection, trauma, or generalized activation of the acute inflammatory response as in acute pancreatitis (1-7).