Diagnosis and prognostic significance of minimal hepatic encephalopathy in patients with cirrhosis of liver

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2381-2390

  Dhiman, Radha K ^a   Kurmi, Roshan ^a   Thumburu, Kiran K ^a   Venkataramarao, Sunil H ^a   Agarwal, Ritesh ^a   Duseja, Ajay ^a   Chawla, Yogesh ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Critical flicker frequency; Metabolic encephalopathy; Minimal hepatic encephalopathy; Natural history; Prognosis; Psychometric hepatic encephalopathy score; Psychometry

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FLICKER FUSION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 77954426505     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-010-1249-7     Document Type: Article

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