Hepatic encephalopathy was defined according to the West-Haven criteria. [1] The episode of HE was assessed clinically and independently by two senior consultants (co-authors) with more than 20 ...

A 74-year-old man with an unremarkable medical history noted a progressive gait disorder in the months prior to admission. His wife recalled increased sleepiness and loss of initiative. After ...

Encephalopathy, if untreated, causes personality changes, intellectual impairment, altered consciousness. Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy in children causes delayed developmental milestones and ...

Encephalopathy if not treated in time may cause impairment of mental status. Causes swelling of brain that leads to herniation and coma. As it is caused by various factors each has its own ...

Award-winning actor Bellamy Young from shows including Scandal is now opening up about losing her father to liver disease and ...

The animal did not enter the food chain and Food Standards Scotland have confirmed there is no risk to human health as a ...

A case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) has today been confirmed on a farm in Scotland, but there is no evidence ...

It might start simply, with a cough or sneeze…but in some cases, the flu virus can make its way to your brain, causing serious symptoms or even death through a disease known as influenza-associated ...

Some influenza-associated brain disorders may be caused by the virus entering the brain and making proteins, suggesting that ...

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 ...

Salix Pharmaceuticals is stepping up its promotion of Xifaxan in overt hepatic encephalopathy (HE), putting award-winning ...