White matter microsusceptibility changes in patients with hepatic encephalopathy

Journal of Radiology Case Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1-7

  Achiriloaie, Adina F ^a   Kido, Daniel ^a   Wycliffe, Dan ^a   Jacobson, J Paul ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain mri; Hepatic encephalopathy; Neuroradiology; Susceptibility weighted imaging

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BILIRUBIN; D DIMER; FIBRINOGEN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CLONUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CRYPTOGENIC CIRRHOSIS; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FALLING; FEMALE; FLAPPING TREMOR; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LEG EDEMA; LETHARGY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MACROCYTIC ANEMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SKIN BRUISING; SPLENOMEGALY; STROKE; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER MICROSUSCEPTIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER CIRCULATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 80052099656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3941/jrcr.v5i8.393     Document Type: Article

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