Introduction: Indian childhood cirrhosis is a chronic liver disease usually seen in paediatric age group and is unique to the Indian subcontinent. The definitive causative factor for the disease is not found till now but excess copper ingestion has been associated with it.Case presentation: An Indian origin one and half year old premorbidly normal male child presented with history of gradual di...

how to cite this article: dara n, sayyari aa, imanzadeh f. hepatic encephalopathy: early diagnosis in pediatric patients with cirrhosis. iran j child neurol. 2014 winter; 8(1):1-11. objective as acute liver failure (alf) and chronic liver disease (cirrhosis) continue to increase in prevalence, we will see more cases of hepatic encephalopathy. primary care physician are often the first to suspec...

conclusions no evidence-based guidelines exist on the use of analgesics in patients with liver disease and cirrhosis. as a result pain management in these patients generates considerable misconception among health care professionals, leading under-treatment of pain in this population. providing concrete guidelines toward the administration of these agents will lead to more efficient and safer p...

the incidence of cirrhosis and primary hepatic carcinoma in the autopsy material is studied. in 4389 autopsies performed, during the last 9 years we found 134 (3%) cases of cirrhosis and 24 (0.5%) cases of primary hepatic carcinoma. the majority of the patients were from northwest and west part of the city. of the 134 cases of cirrhosis 90 correspond to the portal type, 24 to the post-necrotic ...

A 63-year-old woman suffering from progressive systemic sclerosis for about 20 years disclosed symptoms of liver disease within the last three years. Diagnosis of biliary cirrhosis was established on the basis of clinical picture, pathological examination of the hepatic tissue sample, immunological tests, and x-ray studies. Association of systemic sclerosis with primary biliary cirrhosis is...

conclusions non-invasive assessment of hepatic fibrosis could be done using the egy-score. egy-score could differentiate no or early fibrosis (stage f0-f2 metavir) from severe fibrosis or cirrhosis (stage f3 - f4 metavir) with 83.7% accuracy. results combined elevation of ca 19-9 and ca 125 with a summated value > 37 u/ml is predictive of severe hepatic fibrosis or cirrhosis (stage f3-f4 metavi...

Background: Intrapulmonary vascular abnormalities associated with liver cirrhosis may result in intrapulmonary right-to-left shunt and hypoxemia. The aim of this study was to use contrast enhanced echocardiography to detect intrapulmonary vascular abnormalities in patients with liver cirrhosis candidates for liver transplantation. Methods: One hundred and two adult patients underwent contrast e...

BACKGROUND Hepatic encephalopathy has a negative impact on health-related quality of life (QoL) in liver cirrhosis. There are scarce and conflicting data on whether type or etiology of liver cirrhosis could be related to hepatic encephalopathy in patients with cirrhosis. We aimed to determine the impact of cirrhosis etiology on hepatic encephalopathy and whether hepatic encephalopathy affects h...

introduction: indian childhood cirrhosis is a chronic liver disease usually seen in paediatric age group and is unique to the indian subcontinent. the definitive causative factor for the disease is not found till now but excess copper ingestion has been associated with it.case presentation: an indian origin one and half year old premorbidly normal male child presented with history of gradual di...