Saccadic latency in hepatic encephalopathy: A pilot study

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 285-295

  Krismer, Florian ^a   Roos, Jonathan C P ^b   Schranz, Melanie ^a   Graziadei, Ivo W ^a   Mechtcheriakov, Sergei ^a   Vogel, Wolfgang ^a   Carpenter, R H S ^b   Zoller, Heinz ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Brain function; Eye movements; Liver cirrhosis; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; SODIUM; UREA;

ADULT; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LATENT PERIOD; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOMETRY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; PILOT PROJECTS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 78149409052     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-010-9210-1     Document Type: Article

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