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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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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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Trends in Characteristics, Mortality, and Other Outcomes of Patients With Newly Diagnosed Cirrhosis [PDF]

, 2019
Importance: Changes in the characteristics of patients with cirrhosis are likely to affect future outcomes and are important to understand in planning for the care of this population.
Chalasani, Naga, Desai, Archita, Ghabril, Marwan, Nephew, Lauren, Orman, Eric S., Patidar, Kavish, Roberts, Anna   +6 more
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Assessment of the Therapeutic Effect of Polyethylene glycol and Lactulose in Patients with Hepatic Encephalopathy

Novelty in Biomedicine, 2022
Background: The mechanism of cerebral dysfunction in hepatic encephalopathy is unknown, although ammonia produced by intestinal bacteria is an essential factor.
Majid Iranshahi Iranshahi, Parviz Amri, Mohamad Amri   +2 more
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Coil-Assisted Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration (CARTO) for the Treatment of Portal Hypertensive Variceal Bleeding: Preliminary Results. [PDF]

, 2014
ObjectivesTo describe the technical feasibility, safety, and clinical outcomes of coil-assisted retrograde transvenous obliteration (CARTO) in treating portal hypertensive non-esophageal variceal hemorrhage.MethodsFrom October 2012 to December 2013, 20 ...
Busuttil, Ronald, Durazo, Francisco, Goldstein, Leonard, Gomes, Antoinette S, Han, Steven-Huy, Kee, Stephen T, Lee, Edward W, Loh, Christopher T, McWilliams, Justin, Moriarty, John, Saab, Sammy, Tafti, Bashir A   +11 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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P- 17 FRAILTY AND COVERT HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY IN CIRRHOTIC PATIENTS AT A THIRD LEVEL HOSPITAL IN GUATEMALA

Annals of Hepatology, 2023
Introduction and Objectives: In Guatemala, liver cirrhosis has a mortality rate of 41 per 100,000 inhabitants. Diminished physical reserve (frailty) is an important prognostic factor, largely determined by sarcopenia, which in turn has a role in the ...
Katherine Maldonado, Abel Sánchez
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Concise review of current concepts on nomenclature and pathophysiology of hepatic encephalopathy

Medicina, 2014
Hepatic encephalopathy is a neuropsychiatric complication of liver cirrhosis the symptoms of which may vary from imperceptible to severe, invaliding, and even lethal.
Ilona Savlan, Valentina Liakina, Jonas Valantinas   +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

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, Bakir Tulay, Bektas Ahmet, Cure Osman, Gungor Bulent   +4 more
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Attenuation of congenital portosystemic shunt reduces inflammation in dogs. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Liver disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. One of the most significant complications in patients with liver disease is the development of neurological disturbances, termed hepatic encephalopathy. The pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy
Michael S Tivers, Ian Handel, Adam G Gow, Victoria J Lipscomb, Rajiv Jalan, Richard J Mellanby   +5 more
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