Hepatic encephalopathy: a critical current review
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Hepatic encephalopathy: a critical current review
Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a serious neuropsychiatric complication of cirrhosis and/or porto-systemic shunting. The clinical symptoms are widely variable, extending from subtle impairment in mental state to coma. The utility of categorizing the severity of HE accurately and efficiently serves not only to provide practical functional information about the current clinical status of the patie...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hepatology International
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1936-0533,1936-0541
DOI: 10.1007/s12072-017-9812-3