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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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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,
J P, Ong, K D, Mullen
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Annals of Clinical Biochemistry: International Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2017 This article reviews hepatic encephalopathy (HE) in companion animals. Clinical signs and categories of hepatic disease likely to cause HE are discussed. Ammonia has a key role in pathogenesis and current concepts in body ammonia metabolism are reviewed. Inflammation and manganese accumulation are also thought to be important in pathogenesis. Treatment
Nikroo Hashemi, Allison R Schulman
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2021 ISHEN guidelines on animal models of hepatic encephalopathy
Liver international (Print), 2021 This working group of the International Society of Hepatic Encephalopathy and Nitrogen Metabolism (ISHEN) was commissioned to summarize and update current efforts in the development and characterization of animal models of hepatic encephalopathy (HE). As
S. DeMorrow +4 more
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Hepatic Encephalopathy Induced Transient Cortical Blindness
Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 2022 Hepatic encephalopathy describes a spectrum of potentially reversible neuropsychiatric abnormalities seen in a patient with severe liver dysfunction with porto-systemic shunting.
Shweta Pokhrel +5 more
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Liver international (Print), 2021 Sarcopenia and myosteatosis have been associated to a poor prognosis of cirrhosis and to a higher incidence of hepatic encephalopathy (HE). The prognostic implications of visceral and subcutaneous adiposity are less known.
S. Gioia +6 more
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Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Alexis Holman +4 more
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Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2022 Objective: To determine the association of serum Ammonia levels with severity of grades of hepatic encephalopathy in patients presenting to the department. Study Design: Comparative cross-sectional study.
Muhammad Dawood +5 more
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Pathomechanisms in hepatic encephalopathy
Biological chemistry, 2021 Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a frequent neuropsychiatric complication in patients with acute or chronic liver failure. Symptoms of HE in particular include disturbances of sensory and motor functions and cognition.
D. Häussinger +3 more
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