The importance of hepatic encephalopathy: Pre-transplant and post-transplant

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 121-123

  DiMartini, Andrea ^a   Chopra, Kapil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION; EDITORIAL; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOM; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 67649209490     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21638     Document Type: Editorial

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