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Acute Liver Failure: full-pipeline trial registry

1 of 3 indexed Acute Liver Failure trials are currently recruiting.

Corpus placement: #5,209 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

3 US clinical trials · 1 currently recruiting · #5,209 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Acute Liver Failure: 3 US clinical trials tracked, 1 recruiting.

Acute Liver Failure is the subject of 3 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 1 of them currently open to new participants. 1 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 1 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), running 3 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition acute-liver-failure

OPEN 1 | RECR 33% | LATE 1 | EARLY 1 | RANK #5209 | SPON 3

Nearest open-share peer: Adherence, Treatment (33% recruiting · 6 trials)

Ablation80%ACL Reconstruction80%Abuse, Drug60%Acceptability60%Acute Liver Failure (this)33%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Acute Liver Failure

Acute Liver Failure lists 1 open slots (33% of 3 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Acute Liver Failure on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Acute Liver Failure is recruiting below its size-band peers.

    1 of 3 indexed trials (33.3%) are open to enrollment, against a 46.5% average across 27,806 conditions with fewer than 20 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

Phase 21Phase 31

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 2 1
Phase 3 1

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Acute Liver Failure records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

N-acetylcysteine (NAC) Drug
1 trials
HBIG, Epivir, Hepsera Drug
1 trials
Placebo for infusions Drug
1 trials
Placebo for prednisolone Drug
1 trials
Equine anti-thymocyte globulin Drug
1 trials
High-dose methylprednisolone Drug
1 trials
Prednisolone Drug
1 trials
Placebo Drug
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Acute Liver Failure trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Pennsylvania 2 trials
New York 2 trials
North Carolina 2 trials
Missouri 2 trials
Michigan 2 trials
Massachusetts 2 trials
Illinois 2 trials
California 2 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

What to do with this Acute Liver Failure page

3 registered trials, 1 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Acute Liver Failure condition card totals 3 registered trials; most-linked intervention N-acetylcysteine (NAC); top US site state Pennsylvania. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.