Frontal electroencephalogram variables are associated with the outcome and stage of hepatic encephalopathy in acute liver failure

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1256-1265

  Stewart, Juhani ^a,b   Särkelä, Mika ^c   Koivusalo, Anna Maria ^b   Wennervirta, Johanna ^b   Salmi, Tapani ^a,b   Isoniemi, Helena ^b   Stenman, Ulf Håkan ^a,b   Viertiö Oja, Hanna ^c   Lapinlampi, Petteri ^c   Lindgren, Leena ^d   Salminen, Ulla Stina ^b   Vakkuri, Anne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c GE Healthcare Finland Oy   (Finland)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; ALBUMIN DIALYSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEUROMONITORING; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; AGED; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPLICATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL LOBE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908503648     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23944     Document Type: Article

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