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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hepatology. 2018 Mar 26;67(5):1931–1942. doi: 10.1002/hep.29694

Table 1.

Sites and causes of bleeding complications in patients with ALF.

Cause of Bleeding Bleeding Site Total Occurrences* (N) Cause of Death (N)
Spontaneous UGI 163 3
Intracranial 10 2
Post-Procedural Venous access site 8 0
Intracranial (ICP monitor) 10 5
Nasopharyngeal 2 0
Genitourinary 2 0
Total 195 10
*

N=2 had both spontaneous UGI and spontaneous intracranial bleeding

N=2 had both spontaneous UGI and post-procedural intracranial bleeding

N=4 had both spontaneous UGI and post-procedural bleeding at venous access site

ICP, intracranial pressure; UGI, upper gastrointestinal