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Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy: The Reality Beyond Our Eyes

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2015
Introduction: Minimal hepatic encephalopathy refers to a mild neurocognitive impairment not detectable by clinical examination that can be present in cirrhotic patients.
Mara Barbosa, Carla Marinho, Paula Mota, José Cotter   +3 more
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Results of using L-ornitin-L-aspartate in the treatment of hepatic encephalopathy in liver transplantation

Трансплантология (Москва), 2021
The aim was to study the results of using various treatment regimens for hepatic encephalopathy for patients with liver cirrhosis before and after liver transplantation and the effect on the incidence and severity of hepatic encephalopathy in the ...
S. E. Voskanyan, E. V. Naydenov, A. I. Artemev, D. A. Zabezhinskiy, K. K. Gubarev, V. S. Rudakov, M. V. Shabalin, D. S. Svetlakova, A. P. Maltseva, Yu. V. Voskanyan, A. G. Naydenova, M. Muktarzhan, Z. Sadykhov   +12 more
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Risk factors for hepatic encephalopathy in patients with liver cirrhosis: a retrospective study

Di-san junyi daxue xuebao, 2019
Objective To explore the risk factors associated with hepatic encephalopathy in patients with cirrhosis. Methods A total of 188 cirrhotic patients diagnosed with hepatic encephalopathy admitted in our hospital during June 2016 and June 2018 were enrolled
WANG Na, LI Juan, LI Xia, LIANG Luwen, WANG Xiaomei   +4 more
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Minimal hepatic encephalopathy – diagnosis and treatment

Gastroenterology Review, 2021
Hepatic encephalopathy is a dysfunction of the central nervous system caused by chronic and acute liver disease. It presents a wide spectrum of symptoms from undetectable in a standard clinical examination to hepatic coma.
Wojciech Pisarek
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Portosystemic hepatic encephalopathy model shows reversal learning impairment and dysfunction of neural activity in the prefrontal cortex and regions involved in motivated behavior [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience (2011)18(5):690-4, 2011
Hepatic encephalopathy is a neurological complication that affects attention and memory. Experimental animal models have been used to study hepatic Encephalopathy, the most frequent being the portacaval shunt. In order to determine learning impairment and brain functional alterations in this model, we assessed reversal learning and neural metabolic ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Liver volume based prediction model for patients with hepatitis B virus‐related acute‐on‐chronic liver failure

Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences, Volume 29, Issue 12, Page 1253-1263, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Background Hepatitis B virus‐related acute‐on‐chronic liver failure (HBV‐ACLF) is a life‐threatening disease with high short‐term mortality. Early and accurate prognosis is significant for clinical decisions, in which liver volume (LV) imparts important information. However, LV has not been considered in current prognostic models for HBV‐ACLF.
Chunhua Hu, Na Jiang, Jie Zheng, Chenxia Li, Huihong Huang, Juan Li, Hongbing Li, Zhijie Gao, Nan Yang, Qi Xi, Jing Wang, Zitong Liu, Kemeng Rao, Heping Zhou, Tianhui Li, Yi Chen, Yuelang Zhang, Jian Yang, Yingren Zhao, Yingli He   +19 more
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RIFAXIMIN EFFECTIVENESS IN PREVENTING THE RECURRENCE OF HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY AMONG PATIENTS WITH LIVER CIRRHOSIS

Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2021
Objective: To determine the effectiveness of rifaximin in reducing the frequency of recurrence of hepatic encephalopathy among patients with liver cirrhosis. Study Design: Descriptive case series.
Muhammad Zulqurnain Saleem, Muhammad Hasan Saleem, Husnain Saleem, Muhammad Ali Aasil   +3 more
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SODIUM AND CALCIUM LEVELS IN PATIENTS WITH CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER AND ITS CORRELATION WITH HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY [PDF]

, 2023
Introduction: Patients with chronic liver disease have a specific susceptibility to an electrolyte imbalance that can deteriorate their condition to hepatic encephalopathy. It occursin about 57% of hospitalized patients with cirrhosis.
Shahid Ahmad Nangroo , Muzaffar Nazir and Mohd Israr
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Analysis of hope level and its influencing factors in patients with decompensated cirrhosis

Nursing Open, Volume 10, Issue 2, Page 623-629, February 2023., 2023
Abstract Aim The aim of this study was to examine hope level and its influencing factors in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis. Design A prospective observational study. Methods We selected 93 patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis from a Chinese university hospital based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Yuanyuan Zhang, Ling Xie, Fen Li, Chunyan Huo, Yanling Miao, Lining Wang, Caiyan Ding   +6 more
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Understanding the impact of neurologic complications in patients with cirrhosis

SAGE Open Medicine, 2019
Patients with cirrhosis may experience neurologic complications, including hepatic encephalopathy. Hepatic encephalopathy may be classified as covert (mild symptoms (e.g. lack of awareness)) or overt (moderate to severe symptoms (e.g. confusion or coma)),
Sanath K Allampati, Kevin D Mullen
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