Share on Pinterest Actor Bellamy Young shares details about her late father’s battle with hepatic encephalopathy, a complication that can occur in people living with cirrhosis that affects their ...

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The advanced stages of overt HE (Table 2) are readily recognized because of alterations in cognition, personality, and sleeping patterns along with the physical findings of asterixis, drowsiness, or ...

Our article has highlighted the close relationship between the process that results in brain edema and the pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy. ALF is a good example of how factors traditionally ...

The descent into dementia can feel like traversing a minefield, coming across new symptoms without the hope of a cure. But some dementia patients, even up to 10% of people diagnosed with the condition ...

Detecting high ammonia levels in your blood can help doctors diagnose and treat liver disease before it progresses and becomes life threatening. Ammonia is a substance made of hydrogen and nitrogen.

Cirrhosis of the liver is a chronic and progressive disease in which healthy liver cells are slowly replaced by scar tissue, severely impairing vital liver functions such as detoxification, hormone ...

Liver disease includes any condition that damages your liver. Over time, scar tissue can build up in your liver. Scarring or fibrosis can progress over many years until you develop cirrhosis—the most ...