Magnetic resonance of the brain in chronic and acute liver failure

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 937-944

  Chavarria, Laia ^a,b,c   Cordoba, Juan ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Acute on chronic liver failure; Chronic liver failure; Imaging; Magnetic resonance; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHOLINE; CREATINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; LACTIC ACID; N-ACETYLASPARTATE;

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN EDEMA; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; METABOLISM; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ASPARTIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN EDEMA; CHOLINE; CREATINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84911805970     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-013-9452-9     Document Type: Article

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