Covert hepatic encephalopathy: Agreement and predictive validity of different indices

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 20, Issue 42, 2014, Pages 15756-15762

  Montagnese, Sara ^a   Balistreri, Esmeralda ^a   Schiff, Sami ^a   De Rui, Michele ^a   Angeli, Paolo ^a   Zanus, Giacomo ^a   Cillo, Umberto ^a   Bombonato, Giancarlo ^a   Bolognesi, Massimo ^a   Sacerdoti, David ^a   Gatta, Angelo ^a   Merkel, Carlo ^a   Amodio, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Electroencephalography; Hepatic encephalopathy; Liver cirrhosis; Psychometry

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

ADULT; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COVERT HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OUTPATIENT; PAPER AND PENCIL PSYCHOMETRY; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; AGED; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84912061224     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i42.15756     Document Type: Article

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