Myelopathy in Hepatic Cirrhosis

Hepatic myelopathy associated with advanced liver cirrhosis.

A 41-year-old man was admitted to our institution with inertia of both lower extremities and walking instability. The patient had been diagnosed with chronic hepatitis B (hepa B) for 10 years, including hepa B virus associated cirrhosis within the last 4 years. The patient had also suffered hepatic encephalopathy within the last 6 months, which resolved following treatment. A month before the c...

Hepatic Myelopathy in a Patient with Decompensated Alcoholic Cirrhosis and Portal Colopathy

Cirrhotic or hepatic myelopathy is a rare neurological complication of chronic liver disease usually seen in adults and presents as a progressive pure motor spastic paraparesis which is usually associated with overt liver failure and a surgical or spontaneous systemic portocaval shunt. We describe the development of progressive spastic paraparesis, in a patient with alcoholic cirrhosis with por...

Hepatic Cirrhosis

TIhC 0CCLPTen1CC inI h1o0Spitall Within a conmparatively shiort space of time of touIr unuISula.l examllples of cirrhosis of tihe li\-er in-younil-chil(lren has le(d us to Iake this comlnlLI1liunictionl. Disorders of tihe liver in chil(lhoo(l ha\ve iii recent N'ears not attracted imiuchi attentioni in tihis country, and we feel that tlhe mere ventilation of the suLb)ject, thIough,0LI we mXVn ha...

[Hepatic cirrhosis].

Hepatic Cirrhosis