Duration of liver failure | Liver Failure

Duration of liver failure

By definition, different time intervals are defined for liver failure. Liver failure represents the maximum form, i.e. the worst form of liver insufficiency. Thus, liver failure includes liver insufficiency obligatory. The course of the disease until liver failure can be divided into:

  • Fulminant liver failure: duration of less than 7 days
  • Acute liver failure: duration between 7 and 28 days.
  • Subacute or protracted liver failure: Duration of more than 4 weeks
  • Chronic liver failure: longer duration, sometimes for months. In this case, however, part of the liver function is compensated, so that liver failure only occurs when liver function is lost and decompensation takes place.

All articles in this series:

  1. Liver Failure
  2. Symptoms of liver failure
  3. Therapy
  4. Duration of liver failure