Heart rate variability
"Decreased heart rate variability in patients with cirrhosis relates to the presence and degree of hepatic encephalopathy". ...
Infectious canine hepatitis
Corneal edema and signs of liver disease, such as jaundice, vomiting, and hepatic encephalopathy, may also occur. Severe cases ...
Carnitine palmitoyltransferase I
This rare disorder confers risk for hepatic encephalopathy, hypoketotic hypoglycemia, seizures, and sudden unexpected death in ... Demonstration of the presence of malonyl-CoA in non-hepatic tissues of the rat". The Biochemical Journal. 214 (1): 21-8. doi: ...
Fetor hepaticus
It is a late sign in liver failure and is one of the clinical features of hepatic encephalopathy. Other possible causes are the ... also known as breath of the dead or hepatic foetor, is a condition seen in portal hypertension where portosystemic shunting ...
Portal venous pressure
... and has numerous sequelae such as ascites and hepatic encephalopathy. WHVP is used to estimate the portal venous pressure by ... It is determined by wedging a catheter in a hepatic vein, to occlude it, and then measuring the pressure of proximal static ... Portal venous pressure is the blood pressure in the hepatic portal vein, and is normally between 5-10 mmHg. Raised portal ... Kumar, A.; Sharma, P.; Sarin, S. K. (2008). "Hepatic venous pressure gradient measurement: Time to learn!". Indian Journal of ...
Hereditary haemochromatosis
Toxins may accumulate in the blood and eventually affect mental functioning due to increased risk of hepatic encephalopathy. ... Hepatic transplantation in patients with liver failure. Diet can be a powerful but understudied tool in prevention of iron ...
SCO1
Mutations in the SCO1 gene are associated with hepatic failure and encephalopathy resulting from mitochondrial complex IV ... Specifically, cases of pathogenic SCO1 mutations have resulted in fatal infantile encephalopathy, neonatal-onset hepatic ... of the SCO1 gene in mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase deficiency with neonatal-onset hepatic failure and encephalopathy". ... "Novel mutations in SCO1 as a cause of fatal infantile encephalopathy and lactic acidosis". Human Mutation. 34 (10): 1366-70. ...
Hepatitis
Patients should also be treated appropriately for related signs and symptoms, such as ascites, hepatic encephalopathy, and ... and hepatic encephalopathy, and laboratory signs of hypoglycemia, prolonged prothrombin time, low serum albumin, and very high ... Cirrhosis can lead to other life-threatening complications such as hepatic encephalopathy, esophageal varices, hepatorenal ... The pathway by which hepatic viruses cause viral hepatitis is best understood in the case of hepatitis B and C. The viruses do ...
Congenital portosystemic shunt
Unexplained neurocognitive dysfunction and other behavioural issues linked to hepatic encephalopathy occur in 17% to 30% of ... Upon discovery of a CPSS in a child, it is important to rule out portal hypertension or hepatic hemangioma as the cause of the ... Oxygen rich blood is sent to the liver from the heart via the hepatic artery, while the portal vein brings nutrient rich (but ... This blood passes by the network of capillaries before being evacuated by the hepatic veins into the inferior vena cava and ...
Epilepsy in animals
Some of the common metabolic causes of seizures in felines include, hepatic encephalopathy, renal encephalopathy, hypoglycaemia ... Common vascular diseases in cats include, feline ischemic encephalopathy, polycythemia and hypertension. Any inflammatory or ...
Wallace B. Mendelson
Mullen, K.D.; Maftin, J.V.; Mendelson, W.B.; Jones, E.A. (1988). "Further evidence that hepatic encephalopathy in the ...
Ornithine
Butterworth R, Mcphail M (February 2019). "L-Ornithine L-Aspartate (LOLA) for Hepatic Encephalopathy in Cirrhosis: Results of ... has been used in the treatment of cirrhosis and hepatic encephalopathy. Weast, Robert C., ed. (1981). CRC Handbook of Chemistry ... However, in mammalian non-hepatic tissues, the main use of the urea cycle is in arginine biosynthesis, so, as an intermediate ...
Endozepine
They have been linked to hepatic encephalopathy and have controversially been linked to some cases of recurrent stupor. ...
Acetazolamide
... including cirrhosis because of the risk of development of hepatic encephalopathy. Acetazolamide decreases ammonia clearance. It ...
Sleep inversion
... may be a symptom of elevated blood ammonia levels and is often an early symptom of hepatic encephalopathy. ... Mandiga, Pujyitha; Foris, Lisa A.; Kassim, Gassan; Bollu, Pradeep C. (2020), "Hepatic Encephalopathy", StatPearls, StatPearls ...
Idiopathic head tremor in dogs
Endocrine/metabolic diseases like hepatic encephalopathy and infectious diseases like rabies and canine distemper must also be ...
KannaLife
Hepatic encephalopathy, Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and CTE, an oxidative stress related disease that affects the cognitive and ... Based Therapeutics To Treat Hepatic Encephalopathy in Humans". federalregister.gov. Retrieved 2011-11-17. "Kannalife Sciences, ...
Neomycin
Wilson's disease
When these irritate the brain, the person develops hepatic encephalopathy (confusion, coma, seizures, and finally life- ... due to hepatic encephalopathy), and portal hypertension. The last, a condition in which the pressure in the portal vein is ...
Jan Albrecht (biochemist)
He conducts research on the mechanisms of neurotransmitter dysfunction in hepatic encephalopathy and the role of glutamine in ...
Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion
... undesirable taste and is contraindicated in people with cirrhosis to avoid initiation or potentiation of hepatic encephalopathy ...
Paracetamol poisoning
... or significant hepatic encephalopathy. With early treatment liver failure is rare. Death occurs in about 0.1% of cases. ... hepatic encephalopathy, brain swelling, sepsis, multiple organ failure, and death. If the third phase is survived, the liver ...
Blowing the Whistle
Adams tells her theory to Wilson about House, and says that House is suffering from hepatic encephalopathy due to continued ...
Liver disease
Jaundice Confusion and altered consciousness caused by hepatic encephalopathy. Thrombocytopenia and coagulopathy. Risk of ... Both inversely rise in the setting of hepatic insufficiency, thanks to the drop of hepatic clearance and compensatory ... Liver disease, or hepatic disease, is any of many diseases of the liver. If long-lasting it is termed chronic liver disease. ... Fatty liver disease (hepatic steatosis) is a reversible condition where large vacuoles of triglyceride fat accumulate in liver ...
Hematemesis
... hepatic encephalopathy in esophageal varices patient). This may be achieved with a cuffed endotracheal tube. Octreotide may be ... Hepatic schistosomiasis, or intestinal schistosomiasis. This is caused by the parasite Schistosoma mansoni. Iatrogenic injury ( ...
Indapamide
... is contraindicated in known hypersensitivity to sulfonamides, severe kidney failure, hepatic encephalopathy or ...
Bacteriotherapy
... hepatic encephalopathy, and atopic dermatitis. Success in treatment depends on whether single or mixed strains are administered ... and hepatic encephalopathy. Synbiotics can be used both as preventative measures and therapeutic treatments. Hsu, Ronald. " ...
Trastuzumab emtansine
... hepatic encephalopathy, and nodular regenerative hyperplasia; heart damage (dysfunction of the left ventricle); interstitial ...
Alcoholic liver disease
... and possible hepatic decompensation with hepatic encephalopathy, variceal bleeding, and ascites accumulation. Tender ... including hepatic encephalopathy and the hepatorenal syndrome. Cirrhosis can also result from other causes than hazardous ... This is particularly a concern as alcoholics are usually malnourished because of a poor diet, anorexia, and encephalopathy. The ... These usually reflect alcoholic hepatic steatosis. Microvesicular and macrovesicular steatosis with inflammation are seen in ...
Asterixis
It can be a sign of hepatic encephalopathy, damage to brain cells presumably due to the inability of the liver to metabolize ... With a metabolic encephalopathy, the patient is unable to hold their hands back resulting in a "flapping" motion consistent ... R.D. Adams and J.M. Foley first described asterixis in 1949 in patients with severe liver failure and encephalopathy. Initially ... It can be seen in any metabolic encephalopathy e.g. chronic kidney failure, severe congestive heart failure, acute respiratory ...