Psychometric hepatic encephalopathy score for diagnosis of minimal hepatic encephalopathy in China
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Psychometric Hepatic Encephalopathy Score for the Diagnosis of Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy in Romanian Cirrhotic Patients--partial Results.
UNLABELLED In Romania, minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) is underdiagnosed and undertreated in patients with liver cirrhosis. The psychometric hepatic encephalopathy score (PHES) is recommended as the first-line tool for the diagnosis of MHE. AIM To use PHES in a group of Romanian cirrhotic patients and highlight the relationships between demographic and biological factors and tests result...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Gastroenterology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1007-9327
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v19.i46.8745