M. De Lima Oliveira, M. Fernando Paschoal Junior, K Almeida Lins, R. Carvalho De Nogueira, M. Jacobsen Teixeira, E. Bonr-Seng-Shu
Department of Neurology, University Hospital, University of São Paulo – São Paulo, Brazil

Objective: The clinical course of patients with fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) is often worsened by loss autoregulation of cerebral blood flow (CBF), which leads to cerebral edema and intracranial hypertension. The development these complications is an important event in patients with FHF that needs intensive care and urgent liver transplantation. To evaluate the hemodynamic and cerebrovascular autoregulation capacity of patients with fulminant hepatic failure before and after liver transplantation and those not undergoing transplantation.