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

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 51-62

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

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMMONIA;

ADULT; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER PERFUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RISK FACTOR;

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: 0037367142     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021930702815     Document Type: Article

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