Central nervous system alterations in liver cirrhosis: The role of portal-systemic shunt and portal hypoperfusion

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 347-358

  Del Piccolo, Franco ^a,b   Sacerdoti, David ^a   Amodio, Piero ^a   Bombonato, GianCarlo ^a   Bolognesi, Massimo ^a   Mapelli, Daniela ^a   Gatta, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Clinica Medica2   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognitive alterations; Duplex Doppler Ultrasound; Liver cirrhosis; Portal systemic shunt; Psychometric tests; Subclinical hepatic encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

ADULT; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; COGNITION; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER PERFUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATENT PARAUMBILICAL VEIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; PSYCHOMETRY; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEIN DIAMETER;

BRAIN; DUPLICATE PUBLICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL PRESSURE; PORTAL SYSTEM; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 0036981797     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021914003218     Document Type: Conference Paper

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