Key messages The prevention and treatment of hepatic encephalopathy, in people with cirrhosis, largely depends on use of the compound lactulose. Rifaximin is not used to treat hepatic encephalopathy, ...

Praveen Sharma; Amit Agrawal; Barjesh C Sharma; Shiv K Sarin Disclosures J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2011;26 (6):996-1003.

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 ...

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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 ...

By leveraging AI’s capabilities, we can bring specialist expertise into every primary care clinic, making diagnoses more precise, treatment more timely, and the lives of both clinicians and ...

Hence, the clinical manifestations of hyperthyroidism are tachycardia, restlessness, irritability, and widely opened eyes in the infant and hyperactivity, insomnia, tremors, palpitations, and widened ...

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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