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Diagnosis of Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy
2012Minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) is a neurocognitive disorder that can affect up to 80% of cirrhotic patients. Patients seem clinically unimpaired, but have subtle deficits and psychomotor abnormalities that can only be elicited by specialized tests.
Jennifer Y. Montgomery +1 more
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Lactulose Management of Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy
Gastroenterology Nursing, 2019Minimal hepatic encephalopathy has been shown to increase risk of involvement in road traffic accidents and alter quality of life. This systematic review focused on the role of nonabsorbable disaccharides for the management of minimal hepatic encephalopathy.
Donna M, Zucker, Rhoda, Redulla
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Advances in the Evaluation and Management of Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy
Current Gastroenterology Reports, 2010Minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) is a neurocognitive disorder that affects up to 80% of cirrhotic patients. Similar to overt hepatic encephalopathy, ammonia and oxidative stress play key roles in the pathogenesis of MHE. However, MHE is characterized by subtle deficits and psychomotor abnormalities that can only be elicited by specialized ...
Jennifer Y, Montgomery +1 more
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Rifaximin and Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy
American Journal of Gastroenterology, 2011Minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) occurs in up to 70% of patients with cirrhosis and has a clear impact on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in these patients. Antibiotics leading to reductions in circulating ammonia have been used in the past for the treatment of MHE.
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Diagnosis of minimal hepatic encephalopathy: still a challenge
Gut, 2013Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) describes the spectrum of potentially reversible neuropsychiatric abnormalities seen in patients with liver dysfunction after exclusion of unrelated neurological and/or metabolic abnormalities. There is a continuum of changes in brain function from ‘normal’ to overt HE.
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Role of peripheral inflammation in minimal hepatic encephalopathy
Metabolic Brain DiseaseMany patients with liver cirrhosis show minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and motor alterations that reduce their quality of life. Some patients with steatotic liver disease also suffer MCI. To design treatments to improve MHE/MCI it is necessary to understand the mechanisms by which liver disease induce them ...
Marta Llansola +7 more
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Psychometric tests for diagnosing minimal hepatic encephalopathy
Metabolic Brain Disease, 2012While it is consensus that minimal hepatic encephalopathy (mHE) has significant impact on a patient's daily living, and thus should be diagnosed and treated, there is no consensus about the optimal diagnostic tools. At present the most frequently used psychometric methods for diagnosing minimal hepatic encephalopathy are the Inhibitory Control Test and
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