Diagnostic methods in hepatic encephalopathy

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 365, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 1-8

  Quero Guillén, Juan C ^a   Herrerías Gutiérrez, Juan M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Diagnosis; Hepatic encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; TOXIN;

ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTERIAL BLOOD; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN TOXICITY; BRAIN TUMOR; CAPILLARY FLOW; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEAVY METAL POISONING; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOXIA; INTOXICATION; KETOACIDOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; MENINGITIS; MENTAL HEALTH; METABOLIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; UREMIA; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; WERNICKE KORSAKOFF SYNDROME;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 32044443611     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2005.08.003     Document Type: Review

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