Are acquired hepatocerebral degeneration and hepatic myelopathy reversible?

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 176-181

  Pinarbasi, Binnur ^a,b   Kaymakoglu, Sabahattin ^a   Matur, Zeliha ^a   Akyuz, Filiz ^a   Demir, Kadir ^a   Besisik, Fatih ^a   Ozdil, Sadakat ^a   Boztas, Gungor ^a   Cakaloglu, Yilmaz ^a   Mungan, Zeynel ^a   Okten, Atilla ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acquired hepatocerebral degeneration; Cirrhosis; Hepatic myelopathy; Portosystemic shunt

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER SPINAL CORD DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; WILSON DISEASE; LIVER; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPARESIS, SPASTIC; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; PREVALENCE; QUADRIPLEGIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64749108678     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e318150d399     Document Type: Article

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