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Hepatic Encephalopathy

Known as: Encephalopathy, Hepatocerebral, hepatic coma/encephalopathy, ENCEPHALOPATHY, PORTAL-SYSTEMIC 
A syndrome characterized by central nervous system dysfunction in association with LIVER FAILURE, including portal-systemic shunts. Clinical features… 
National Institutes of Health

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Acute Kidney InsufficiencyBrainCentral Nervous SystemComatose

Narrower (3)

Combined Oxidative Phosphorylation Deficiency 1Hepatic ComaHepatic Stupor

Broader (3)

DiseaseEncephalopathiesLiver diseases

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Review
2007
Review
2007
Nationwide increase in hospitalizations and hepatitis C among inpatients with cirrhosis and sequelae of portal hypertension.
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Neuropsychological abnormalities in cirrhosis include learning impairment.
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Subclinical scrapie infection in a resistant species: persistence, replication, and adaptation of infectivity during four passages.
Cross-species infection with transmissible spongiform encephalopathy agents may lead to subclinical infection and to adaptation… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Potential contamination of beef carcases with brain tissue at slaughter
EXPERIMENTAL strain typing of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (VCJD) has shown that the transmissible agent responsible for… 
Review
1996
Review
1996
Are All Diseases Infectious?
The interactions between microorganisms and humans are complex and wondrous. On the one hand, they may result in human illness or… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Subacute necrotizing encephalopathy
Subacute necrotizing encephalopathy (SNE) or Leigh's disease is associated with various defects in oxidative phosphorylation… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Distal spleno-renal shunt versus endoscopic sclerotherapy in the prevention of variceal rebleeding. A meta-analysis of 4 randomized clinical trials.
Review
1991
Review
1991
The new biology of spongiform encephalopathy: infectious amyloidoses with a genetic twist
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Subcortical Arteriosclerotic Encephalopathy
In 1894, Binswanger was the first to describe subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy (SAE), distinguishing it from the… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Brain microvessels take up large neutral amino acids in exchange for glutamine. Cooperative role of Na+-dependent and Na+-independent systems.
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