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Comparison of conservative treatment versus transcatheter arterial embolisation for the treatment of spontaneously ruptured hepatocellular carcinoma [PDF]

, 2018
Purpose: To elucidate the prognostic factors in the spontaneous rupture of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and to determine whether transcatheter arterial embolisation (TAE) is associated with better prognosis compared to conservative treatment.
Baba, Yasutaka, Choi, Young Ho, Hayashi, Sadao, Ikeda, Shunichiro, Koriyama, Chihaya, Shibamoto, Yuta, Shimohira, Masashi, Shinmura, Kohei, Yoshiura, Takashi   +8 more
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Evaluation and Management of Hepatic Encephalopathy: Current Status and Future Directions

Gut and Liver, 2016
Hepatic encephalopathy is a spectrum of neurocognitive manifestations often seen in patients with liver injury or rarely in patients with portosystemic shunting without liver injury.
Duminda Suraweera, Vinay Sundaram, Sammy Saab   +2 more
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Novel Insights Into Pathogenesis and Therapeutic Strategies of Hepatic Encephalopathy, From the Gut Microbiota Perspective

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021
Since the 1950s, gradual changes in the gut microbiota of patients with hepatic encephalopathy have been observed. Previous research has indicated potential associations between the gut and brain, and the gut microbiota is becoming a hot topic in ...
Jiachen Liu, Yantao Xu, Bimei Jiang
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Severe drug-induced liver injury associated with prolonged use of Linezolid [PDF]

, 2010
This study aims to describe a patient developing concomitant severe liver failure and lactic acidosis after long-term treatment with linezolid. A 55-year-old Caucasian woman developed concomitant severe liver failure and lactic acidosis after a treatment
Benoit, Dominique, De Bus, Liesbet, Depuydt, Pieter, Libbrecht, Louis, NOLLET, JOKE, Van Vlierberghe, Hans, Vandekerckhove, Linos, Vogelaers, Dirk   +7 more
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Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2013
Minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) is the earliest form of hepatic encephalopathy and can affect up to 80% of cirrhotic patients. By definition, it has no obvious clinical manifestation and is characterized by neurocognitive impairment in attention, vigilance and integrative function.
Laura M Stinton, Saumya Jayakumar
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Construction of guideline⁃based grading evaluation scheme for hepatic encephalopathy

Huli yanjiu, 2020
ObjectiveTo construct guideline-based grading evaluation scheme for hepatic encephalopathy.MethodsThe relevant evidences for hepatic encephalopathy practice guidelines were searched in the Cochrane Library，CINAHL，UpToDate，as well as Medline，Elsevier，Web ...
PANG Yongli, CHEN Miaoxia, FANG Hengying, GU Jiaojiao, LUO Yuanrong   +4 more
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Pathogenesis of Hepatic Encephalopathy

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, Małgorzata Szczepanek, Agnieszka Słowik, Tomasz Mach   +3 more
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Performance of albumin-bilirubin score in prediction of hepatic encephalopathy in cirrhotic patients with acute variceal bleeding

Egyptian Liver Journal, 2021
Background Hepatic encephalopathy exacerbates the morbidity, delays hospital discharge, and increases the rate of readmissions of cirrhotic patients, particularly those are admitted by acute variceal bleeding.
Rehab Elsayed Elsafty, Abdallah Ahmed Elsawy, Ahmed Fawzy Selim, Atef Mohamed Taha   +3 more
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Medical treatment of ascites in cirrhosis [PDF]

, 1993
Medical treatment of cirrhotic ascites is essentially supportive, dictated by the patient's discomfort, impaired cardiovascular or respiratory function and potential for infection. Treatment of ‘simple’ ascites (moderate fluid accumulation, serum albumin
Alexander L. Gerbes, Bernardi, Bichet, Bosch, Broekhuysen, Caramelo, Conn, DiBona, Epstein, Faloon, Fogel, Fuller, Ganger, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Ginès, Gregory, Guarner, Henriksen, Hoermann, Jüngst, Karnad, Keppler, Laffi, Lenz, Levy, Moore, Perez-Ayuso, Petrillo, Pockros, Ring-Larsen, Schrier, Schölmerich, Shear, Sherlock   +41 more
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Recent advances in hepatic encephalopathy [version 1; referees: 4 approved]

F1000Research, 2017
Hepatic encephalopathy describes the array of neurological alterations that occur during acute liver failure or chronic liver injury. While key players in the pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy, such as increases in brain ammonia, alterations in ...
Victoria Liere, Gurkarminder Sandhu, Sharon DeMorrow   +2 more
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