The development of a new bioartificial liver and its application in 12 acute liver failure patients

Figure 1 The constructed bioartificial liver. CC: charcoal column. BAC: bilirubin absorption column.

Figure 2 Change of ALT, ammonia, prothrombin time, albu-min and total bilirubin index in 12 patients. Compared with pre-, ammonia, prothrombin time and total bilirubin index showed significant decreace in post-. 2 d later, only ammo-nia showed significant lowing. pre-: pre-treatment, post-: post-treatment, 2 d later: 2 d after the treatment. Paired T test was used to test the difference.

Figure 3 The mortality rate of simultaneous HBAL and non-simultaneous HBAL. Significant difference was found between this two groups (P < 0.05).