Hepatic Encephalopathy: Causes, Tests, and Treatment Options

By JP Smithson

Hepatic encephalopathy, also called portosystemic encephalopathy, is a neuro-psychiatric disorder in patients with severe liver disease. When liver failure leads to a buildup of toxic substances in the blood, these toxic substances—that would normally be removed by the liver—reach the brain and cause confusion, drowsiness, personality changes, mood changes and disorientation.
In advanced stages hepatic encephalopathy can lead to coma (called hepatic coma or coma hepaticum) and may eventually lead to death unless treated.
Hepatic encephalopathy is treatable. In some situations, like acute liver failure, the onset of hepatic encephalopathy may indicate the need for a liver transplant.
If you or a loved one has this condition, this informative book will guide you through the causes, tests and treatment options for this often debilitating disease.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andale LLC
• Release date: Jul 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311656445

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Hepatic Encephalopathy: Causes, Tests, and Treatment Options

JP Smithson MA,

JR Barrister MD (Ed.)

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Copyright 2014 JP Smithson MA, JR Barrister MD

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Contents

Introduction

Signs and symptoms

Causes

Classification and Grading

Development of Hepatic Encephalopathy

Diagnosis

Treatment

Prognosis

References

Introduction

Hepatic encephalopathy, also called portosystemic encephalopathy, is a neuro-psychiatric disorder in patients with severe liver disease. When liver failure leads to a buildup of toxic substances in the blood, these toxic substances—that would normally be removed by the liver—reach the brain and cause confusion, drowsiness, personality changes, mood changes and disorientation.

Reports of disturbed behavior in people with jaundice have appeared in medical texts for centuries, and may have been reported as far back as by the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates of Cos (460–370 BCE). Roman encyclopedist Aulus Celsus (1st century AD), known for his

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