Reversible altered mental and neuromotor functioning in association with acute or chronic liver disease and/or portosystemic shunting
Wide spectrum of neurological/psychiatric abnorma...
Age <10 years
Signs of underlying liver disease are prominent; fulminan...
Identify and treat precipitating causes: electrolyte imbalance, GI bleeding, infection
Avoid sedatives, benzodiazepines, opiates, diphenoxylate, and atropine
Grade I or higher...
K72.91 Hepatic failure, unspecified with coma
K72.11 Chronic hepatic failure with coma
K70.40 Alcoholic hepatic failure without coma
K72.90 Hepatic failure, unspecified without coma
K72.9 Hepat...
HE includes a spectrum of neuropsychiatric findings that occur in patients with significant alterations in hepatic function
Lactulose is the cornerstone of therapy for HE
Asterixis (“liv...
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