The brain in acute liver failure. A tortuous path from hyperammonemia to cerebral edema

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-14

  Bjerring, Peter Nissen ^a   Eefsen, Martin ^a   Hansen, Bent Adel ^a   Larsen, Fin Stolze ^a  

^a Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Cerebral edema; Hyperammonemia; Intracranial hypertension

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AQUAPORIN 4; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLOSPORIN A; INDOMETACIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MANNITOL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ASTROCYTE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN EDEMA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; HYPERVENTILATION; INFLAMMATION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIA; LIVER FAILURE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NITROSATIVE STRESS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; HYPERAMMONEMIA; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MITOCHONDRIA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 60449109508     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-008-9116-3     Document Type: Review

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