To Assess the Efficacy of High-Volume Plasma Exchange and GCSF Versus GCSF Alone in Patients of Acute on Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF).

To Assess the Efficacy of High-Volume Plasma Exchange and GCSF Versus GCSF Alone in Patients of Acute on Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF)-A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Study design-Open label randomized controlled trial

Study period-2 years

Study population-All patients of ACLF admitted to ILBS for a period of two years from Feb 2017 to Dec 2018

All the patients of ACLF will receive standard medical therapy and will be randomized within 48 hours of admission into three groups after screening for exclusion and inclusion criteria.(1:2:2) Group A-Standard Medical Therapy only Group B-Standard Medical therapy + Plasma exchange + GCSF Group C-Standard Medical Therapy + GCSF

Inclusion Criteria:

- All consecutive patients in age group of 18-70 years with acute on chronic liver failure as defined by APASL criteria shall be included in the study.Only those patients who wish to be enrolled in the trial shall be included in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Steroid eligible patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis
2. Cirrhosis of liver with previous history of decompensation
3. Patients with severe cardiopulmonary disease
4. Pregnancy
5. Human Immmunodeficiency Virus infection
6. Hepatocellular carcinoma or extrahepatic malignancy
7. Chronic renal insufficiency on treatment with haemodialysis
8. Uncontrolled bleed or patients in disseminated intravascular coagulopathy
9. Patient with expected survival of less than 48 hours
10. Patients with moderate-severe acute respiratory distress syndrome
11. Hemodynamic instability with noradrenaline requirement of more than >0.5ug/kg/min or requirement of dual vasopressors
12. Patients with leukemoid reaction or total leucocyte count > 40,000/mm3
13. Patients diagnosed with Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
14. Patients with known hypersensitivity to Granulocyte colony stimulating factor