Excessive daytime sleepiness and hepatic encephalopathy: It is worth asking

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 245-248

  De Rui, Michele ^a   Schiff, Sami ^a   Aprile, Daniele ^a   Angeli, Paolo ^a   Bombonato, Giancarlo ^a   Bolognesi, Massimo ^a   Sacerdoti, David ^a   Gatta, Angelo ^a   Merkel, Carlo ^a   Amodio, Piero ^a   Montagnese, Sara ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Medicina   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Hepatic encephalopathy; Portal systemic shunt; Sleepiness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOMETRY; COMPLICATION; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS; SURVIVAL; WAKEFULNESS;

AGED; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84878013291     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-012-9360-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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