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KASL clinical practice guidelines for liver cirrhosis: Varices, hepatic encephalopathy, and related complications

Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, 2020
ANT, animal naming test; BCAAs, branched-chain amino acids; BRTO, balloonoccluded retrograde transvenous obliteration; cACLD, compensated advanced chronic liver disease; CFF, critical flicker frequency; CHE, covert hepatic encephalopathy; CI, confidence ...
J. Jang
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Hepatic encephalopathy: A review

Annals of Hepatology, 2003
Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a complication that presents in as many as 28% of patients with cirrhosis, and reported up to ten years after the diagnosis of cirrhosis. Commonly, it is observed in patients with severe hepatic failure and is characterized
Javier Lizardi-Cervera, MD, Paloma Almeda, MD, Luis Guevara, MD, Misael Uribe, MD   +3 more
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Sarcopenia from mechanism to diagnosis and treatment in liver disease [PDF]

, 2016
Sarcopenia or loss of skeletal muscle mass is the major component of malnutrition and is a frequent complication in cirrhosis that adversely affects clinical outcomes.
Dasarathy, Srinivasan, MERLI, Manuela
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Enhanced meningeal lymphatic drainage ameliorates neuroinflammation and hepatic encephalopathy in cirrhotic rats

bioRxiv, 2020
Background and aims Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a serious neurological complication in patients with liver cirrhosis. Nothing is known about the role of the meningeal lymphatic system in HE.
Shao‐Jung Hsu, Chihao Zhang, Jain Jeong, Seong-il Lee, M. McConnell, Teruo Utsumi, Y. Iwakiri   +6 more
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Features of encephalopathy diagnosis in patients with portal hypertension syndrome

Gastroenterologìa, 2017
Background. Hepatic encephalopathy is a pathological change in the brain functions of non-inflammatory origin, which is manifested by a syndrome of secondary neurological and cognitive disorders caused by a set of deep metabolic disorders, as a result of
Yu.M. Stepanov, N.V. Chaliy, S.L. Меlanich   +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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Clinical features of alcoholic hepatitis in latinos and caucasians: A single center experience. [PDF]

, 2017
AimTo study differences of presentation, management, and prognosis of alcoholic hepatitis in Latinos compared to Caucasians.MethodsWe retrospectively screened 876 charts of Caucasian and Latino patients who were evaluated at University of California ...
Durbin-Johnson, Blythe, Halsted, Charles H, Medici, Valentina, Pinon-Gutierrez, Rogelio   +3 more
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Fecal Microbial Transplant Capsules Are Safe in Hepatic Encephalopathy: A Phase 1, Randomized, Placebo‐Controlled Trial

Hepatology, 2019
Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) can cause major morbidity despite standard of care (SOC; rifaximin/lactulose). Fecal microbial transplant (FMT) enemas postantibiotics are safe, but the effect of FMT without antibiotics using the capsular route requires ...
J. Bajaj, N. Salzman, C. Acharya, R. Sterling, Melanie B. White, E. Gavis, A. Fagan, Michael A. Hayward, M. Holtz, S. Matherly, Hannah Lee, M. Osman, M. Siddiqui, M. Fuchs, P. Puri, M. Sikaroodi, P. Gillevet   +16 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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Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Associated Clinical Features in Latino and Caucasian Patients from a Single Center. [PDF]

, 2018
INTRODUCTION AND AIM:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of liver cancer in adults and has seen a rapid increase in incidence in the United States. Racial and ethnic differences in HCC incidence have been observed, with Latinos showing
Kieffer, Dorothy A, Kuftinec, Gabriela N, Levy, Robert, Medici, Valentina   +3 more
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