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Patients with ALF due to ischemic hepatitis. Severe hepatic ischemia accounted for 51 of the 1,147 (4.4%) ALF patients enrolled in the ALFSG between 1/98 and 10/07. At three weeks, there were 36 spontaneous survivors (71%), two patients had undergone liver transplantation (4%), and 13 had died of multi-organ failure (25%). Further follow-up of 28 initial survivors revealed that nine died of a variety of causes and the remaining 19 patients were alive at a median follow-up of 3.7 years
