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Pathogenesis of Hepatic Encephalopathy [PDF]
Gastroenterology Research and Practice, 2012 Hepatic encephalopathy can be a serious complication of acute liver failure and chronic liver diseases, predominantly liver cirrhosis. Hyperammonemia plays the most important role in the pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy.
Irena Ciećko-Michalska +3 more
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Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2022 Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a prognostically relevant neuropsychiatric syndrome that occurs in the course of acute or chronic liver disease. Besides ascites and variceal bleeding, it is the most serious complication of decompensated liver cirrhosis ...
Dhiman, RK +11 more
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The Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology, 2012 Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis affect hundreds of millions of patients all over the world. The majority of patients with cirrhosis will eventually develop complications related to portal hypertension.
Wissam Bleibel, Abdullah M. S. Al-Osaimi
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Association Of Electroencephalogram Patterns With Ammonia Levels In Hepatic Encephalopathy Patients [PDF]
Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College, 2023 Objective: To find out the association between electroencephalogram (EEG) and hepatic encephalopathy. Methodology: This cross-sectional study included 100 patients (with the age of52.5±6.09years for males and 51.7 ± 6.10 years for females) of ...
Anam Fatima +5 more
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Medicine, 2023 Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a complex neurological syndrome, characteristic of patients with liver disease, that causes a wide and complex spectrum of nonspecific neurological and psychiatric manifestations, ranging from a subclinical entity such as ...
H. Kibble +2 more
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Incisional hernia as an unusual cause of hepatic encephalopathy in a 62-year-old man with cirrhosis: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2009 Introduction Hepatic encephalopathy may be initiated by many factors such as gastrointestinal bleeding, infections, fluid and electrolyte disturbances.
Ustaoglu Muge +4 more
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Lactulose enhances neuroplasticity to improve cognitive function in early hepatic encephalopathy [PDF]
Neural Regeneration Research, 2015 Lactulose is known to improve cognitive function in patients with early hepatic encephalopathy; however, the underlying mechanism remains poorly understood.
Nan Yang +7 more
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Neurology, 1993 The approach to the management of patients with HE is summarized in Table 3. Other diagnoses need to be excluded and, after a diagnosis of HE is made on clinical and possibly electroencephalographic grounds, a search made for precipitants. Sedatives and opiates should be avoided, and steps taken to avoid hypoglycaemia, fluid overload or electrolyte ...
Harold O. Conn
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Management of hepatic encephalopathy. [PDF]
Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 1981 Abstract Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is seen as a clinical manifestation of low grade chronic cerebral edema, which is accompanied by alterations in glioneural communication. Different factors such as ammonia, inflammatory cytokines, benzodiazepines and electrolyte imbalances may precipitate or aggravate glia edema, thereby explaining precipitation of
Dieter Häussinger, Gerald Kircheis
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Hepatic encephalopathy: A review
Annals of Hepatology, 2003 Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a complication that presents in as many as 28% of patients with cirrhosis, and reported up to ten years after the diagnosis of cirrhosis. Commonly, it is observed in patients with severe hepatic failure and is characterized
Javier Lizardi-Cervera, MD +3 more
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