Rifaximin is not used to treat hepatic encephalopathy, at present, but it is used as an add-on to lactulose to help prevent hepatic encephalopathy in people whose response to lactulose is inadequate.

Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a neuropsychiatric disorder due to effects of various toxins that accumulate in the blood because of inability of the liver to perform normal detoxifying functions.

A previous report in this journal described seven cases of Hashimoto’s encephalopathy (HE) clinically resembling Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).1 Brain biopsies in such cases are rare and have ...

Objective Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a common complication of liver insufficiency. While there is widespread acceptance of its importance, there is no consensus on how best to diagnose and monitor ...

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Objective To provide a critical review of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) by considering the range of clinical presentations, neuropathology and the strength of evidence for CTE as a distinct ...

It is now recognised that there is a spectrum of concussion disorders ranging from acute concussion at one end to various forms of brain degeneration at the other end. The spectrum includes acute ...

Introduction: Myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like (MELAS) syndrome, a maternally inherited disorder that is among the most common mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diseases, is usually ...

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