The Risk of Surgery in Patients With Liver Disease
| table 1.
Contraindications to Elective Surgery in Patients With Liver
Disease |
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| Acute viral hepatitis |
| Acute alcoholic hepatitis |
| Fulminant hepatic failure |
| Severe chronic hepatitis |
| Child's class C cirrhosis |
| Severe coagulopathy (prolongation of the
prothrombin time of >3 seconds despite vitamin K administration;
platelet count <50,000/mm3) |
| Severe extrahepatic complications |
| Hypoxemia |
| Cardiomyopathy, heart failure |
| Acute renal failure |
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