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Clinics in Liver Disease, 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. One of these recurrent and difficult to treat complications is hepatic encephalopathy.
Wissam Bleibel, Abdullah M. S. Al-Osaimi
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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.
Manuel Romero-Gómez +2 more
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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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DMW - Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, 2001 Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a reversible syndrome of impaired brain function occurring in patients with advanced liver diseases. The precise pathophysiology of HE is still under discussion; the leading hypothesis focus on the role of neurotoxins, impaired neurotransmission due to metabolic changes in liver failure, changes in brain energy metabolism,
A T, Blei, J, Córdoba
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Diagnostics, 2022 Hyperintensities within the bilateral globus pallidus on T1-weighted magnetic resonance images were present in some liver cirrhosis patients with hepatic encephalopathy. The symptoms of covert hepatic encephalopathy are similar to those of mild dementia.
Yasuyuki Tamai +8 more
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2021 Importance: Hepatic encephalopathy is a severe complication, and its contribution to clinical adverse outcomes in patients with acute-on-chronic liver diseases from the East is unclear.Objective: We aimed to investigate the impact of hepatic ...
Liyuan Long +50 more
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Detecting minimal hepatic encephalopathy in an endemic country for hepatitis B: the role of psychometrics and serum IL-6. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 It remains unknown what the prevalence of minimal hepatic encephalopathy is in Taiwan, a highly endemic country for chronic viral hepatitis infection. It is also unclear whether abnormal serum cytokine levels can be indicative of the presence of minimal ...
Chia-Fen Tsai +7 more
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Role of Zinc Deficiency in Development of Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy among HCV Induced Compensated Cirrhotic Patients [PDF]
Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases, 2017 Background and study aim: Minimal hepatic encephalopathy is a term used to describe cirrhotic patients who are clinically normal but show abnormalities of neurophysiological variables and/or cognition.
Ibrahim Ibrahim, Amany Sediq
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Association Of Electroencephalogram Patterns With Ammonia Levels In Hepatic Encephalopathy Patients
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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Study of the Correlation between Helicobacter pylori Infection and Hepatic Encephalopathy in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis [PDF]
Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases, 2014 Background and study aim: Ammonia plays a major role in hepatic encephalopathy pathogenesis. Most of ammonia is known to be produced by the action of colonic bacteria which possess a urease enzyme activity. H. pylori which infects the stomach possesses a
Mahmoud Kamel +3 more
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