Liver transplantation and comprehensive rehabilitation in the reversal of hepatic myelopathy: a case report [PDF]
Frontiers in MedicineHepatic myelopathy (HM) is a rare complication of end-stage chronic liver disease, primarily presenting as symmetrical lower limb weakness that progresses to spastic paralysis without sensory or sphincter dysfunction.
Mingyue Liu +7 more
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Hepatic Myelopathy in a Patient with Decompensated Alcoholic Cirrhosis and Portal Colopathy [PDF]
Case Reports in Hepatology, 2012 Cirrhotic or hepatic myelopathy is a rare neurological complication of chronic liver disease usually seen in adults and presents as a progressive pure motor spastic paraparesis which is usually associated with overt liver failure and a surgical or ...
Madhumita Premkumar +7 more
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Regional gray matter abnormality in hepatic myelopathy patients after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt: a voxel-based morphometry study [PDF]
Neural Regeneration Research, 2019 Hepatic myelopathy is a complication seen in patients with chronic liver failure with physiologic or iatrogenic portosystemic shunting. The main symptom is progressive lower limb dyskinesia.
Kang Liu +11 more
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Liver Transplantation Reverses Hepatic Myelopathy in 2 Children With Hepatitis A Infection [PDF]
Child Neurology Open, 2021 Objectives: To report 2 children with acute hepatic myelopathy after hepatitis A infection who recovered completely after living donor liver transplantation. Methods: All the children admitted into liver intensive care unit (LICU) from
Bikrant Bihari Lal +2 more
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Liver transplantation in hepatic myelopathy. [PDF]
Hepatol Forum, 2022 Hepatic myelopathy (HMy) is a rare neurological complication of liver cirrhosis that involves spastic paraplegia caused by lateral cord demyelination especially due to the accumulation of some metabolites such as ammonia and manganese. We report a young adult woman presenting with spasticity and paraparesis in extremities after intrahepatic ...
Acar S, Dinckan A, Akyildiz M.
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Hepatic myelopathy as a rare but reversible neurological complication post transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) insertion in liver cirrhosis [PDF]
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal MedicineHepatic myelopathy is a rare but underrecognized complication of chronic liver disease characterized by pure motor, symmetric and spastic paraparesis without sphincter involvement.
Angela Zhu +3 more
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Hepatic myelopathy neurological complication of chronic liver disease: two case reports [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case ReportsBackground Hepatic myelopathy is a very rare neurological complication of chronic liver disease. Patients habitually present with progressive pure motor spastic paraparesis.
Mariem Mhiri +12 more
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Spontaneous remission of hepatic myelopathy in a patient with alcoholic cirrhosis: A case report. [PDF]
World J Clin Cases, 2022 Hepatic myelopathy (HM) is a rare neurological complication of advanced cirrhosis. Prognosis of patients with HM is generally poor without timely liver transplantation or interventional therapy. Self-resolving HM in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis has never been reported.A 53-year-old man with alcoholic cirrhosis and recurrent overt hepatic ...
Chang CY +5 more
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The effect of fecal microbiota transplantation on Hepatic myelopathy: A case report. [PDF]
Medicine (Baltimore), 2019 Abstract Rationale: Hepatic myelopathy (HM), also known as portal-systemic myelopathy, is a rare neurological complication that occurs in patients with chronic liver disease. There is no easy and feasible treatment, liver transplantation is the only accepted therapy that may be effective for patients at early stage at
Sun L, Li J, Lan LL, Li XA.
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A rare complication of cirrhosis: Hepatic myelopathy
Journal of Spinal Surgery, 2014 Introduction: Hepatic myelopathy is characterized by spastic paraparesis and minimal sensory abnormalities in patients with cirrhosis, particularly those with portosystemic shunts that have been created surgically or have occurred spontaneously ...
Sofiene Bouali +5 more
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