BACKGROUND AND AIM An oral glutamine load in cirrhotic patients awaiting liver transplantation was shown to cause a rise in blood ammonia and psychometric abnormalities which were reversed by hepatic transplantation. L-Ornithine-L-aspartate (LOLA) has been shown to reduce ammonia and improve psychometric function in patients with hepatic encephalopathy. The aim of the present study was to asses...

S tatic encephalopathy (SE) is defined as nonprogressive dysfunction of the brain1. The effects on development depend on the part of the brain involved and on the severity of the damage” 2. Brain damage associated with SE is permanent; consequently, there is no cure.3 Cerebral palsies are a subgroup of SE, defined as ‘A group of disorders of the development of movement and posture causing activ...

Background and aim—An oral glutamine load in cirrhotic patients awaiting liver transplantation was shown to cause a rise in blood ammonia and psychometric abnormalities which were reversed by hepatic transplantation. L-Ornithine-Laspartate (LOLA) has been shown to reduce ammonia and improve psychometric function in patients with hepatic encephalopathy. The aim of the present study was to assess...

Metronidazole-induced encephalopathy (MIE) is a rare cause of drug-induced toxic encephalopathy. We report the clinical and neuroimaging findings of a patient with chronic diarrhoea who developed metronidazole-induced encephalopathy. After the drug was discontinued there was complete reversal of the condition.

Two cases of acute encephalopathy in young children clearly showed evidence of influenza A virus infection and bilateral thalamic lesions. Influenza-associated encephalopathy with bilateral thalamic lesions has mostly been reported in Japan; it differs from Reye's syndrome in several respects. Other factors in addition to influenza virus infection may have contributed to the etiology of encepha...

Valacyclovir, a prodrug of acyclovir, may cause adverse drug reactions, so called acyclovir encephalopathy. The encephalopathy not be explained simply by blood concentrations, because recent reports suggest the involvement 9-carboxymethoxymethylguanine (CMMG), major metabolite acyclovir. present study demonstrates changes in serum concentrations and CMMG patient with suspected A 63-year-old mal...

Early infantile epileptic encephalopathy or EIEE (Ohtahara syndrome OS) is a kind of intractable seizure that begins in neonatal age with sudden onset of tonic spasms in series or single suppression-burst S-B in EEG.I Imaging shows anatomic defects such as migration disorders and generalized atrophy" with essentially normal metabolic tests. The seizures often change to West's syndrome (WS) ...

Aim: The GRIN2D gene mutation causes severe forms of epileptic encephalopathy. NMDAR antagonists and magnesium sulfate could be useful as adjunctive therapy to control seizures in individuals with aim this study was describe the clinical features treatment options encephalopathy.Methods: Patients followed up encephalopathy our pediatric neurology clinic were investigated for genetic etiology us...

OBJECTIVE: To analyze international research trends in hepatic encephalopathy and examine the role of neuroelectrophysiology and neuroimaging in diagnosis of hepatic encephalopathy. DATA RETRIEVAL: We performed a bibliometric analysis of studies on hepatic encephalopathy published during 2002–2011 retrieved from Web of Science. SELECTION CRITERIA: Inclusion criteria: (1) peer-reviewed published...

Gluckman, P., Wyatt, J. S., Azzopardi, D., Ballard, R., Edwards, A.D., Ferriero, D.M., Polin, R. A., Robertson, C., Thoresen, M., Whitelaw, A., Gunn, A. J. Selective Head Cooling With Mild Systemic Hypothermia After Neonatal Encephalopathy: Multicentre Randomized Trial Background: Cerebral hypothermia can improve outcome of experimental perinatal hypoxia-ischaemia. We did a multicenter randomis...