| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Saitama Medical University, , Moroyama‐machi, Japan;2. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, School of Medicine, Iwate Medical University, , Morioka, Japan;3. Department of Digestive and Life‐Style Related Disease, Health Research Course, Human and Environmental Sciences, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, , Kagoshima, Japan;4. Department of Gastroenterology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, , Gifu, Japan;5. Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Keio University, , Japan, Shinano‐machi;6. Department of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, , Chiba, Japan;7. Department of Gastroenterology, Shizuoka Hospital, Juntendo University, , Izunokuni, Japan;8. Kagoshima City Hospital, , Kagoshima, Japan |
| Abstract: | The Intractable Liver Diseases Study Group of Japan, supported by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, established novel diagnostic criteria for “acute liver failure” in 2011. In these criteria, patients without histological findings of hepatitis are included in the disease entity of “acute liver failure”, as in Europe and the USA. In this report, classification criteria for the etiologies of “acute liver failure” in Japan are proposed. |
