Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) in acute liver injury signifies a serious prognosis. Brain edema and intracranial hypertension are major causes of death in this syndrome. Comparison of HE in acute ...

This study shows that the incidence of hepatic encephalopathy was lower in cirrhotic patients with upper gastrointestinal bleed treated with lactulose as compared with patients not treated with ...

Self-induction is rare, but observations reported in the literature indicate some of the factors that may have led to the acute encephalopathy in the 2 cases reported above. Case 1 demonstrates ...

Background. A 23 year-old female presented to a neurology department with a 3 year history of recurrent episodes involving hearing loss, encephalopathy, focal neurological deficits, and visual ...