Mammillary body atrophy in acute liver failure and acute-on-chronic liver failure of nonalcoholic etiology

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 361-371

  Kumar Mandal, Pranav ^a   Kumar Yadav, Santosh ^a   Anand Saraswat, Vivek ^a   Kumar Singh, Jitesh ^b   Upreti, Pooja ^a   Singh, Rajendra ^a   Kishore Singh Rathore, Ram ^b   Kumar Gupta, Rakesh ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Caudate nucleus; Hepatic encephalopathy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Thiamine; Wernicke's encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; MANNITOL; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGENATION; PATIENT MONITORING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATROPHY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; LIVER FAILURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MAMILLARY BODIES; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUES; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349226844     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-009-9140-y     Document Type: Article

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