A 77-year-old woman with a history of hepatitis C cirrhosis presents to the emergency department with 24 hours of progressive ...

After the patient developed progressive apathy, loss of initiative, magnetic gait and hypertonia of the extremities, treatment with dexamethasone (2 × 4 mg/day) was started. There was a ...

history of previous lactulose intake <6 weeks, any neurological disease, non-hepatic metabolic encephalopathy, hepatocellular carcinoma, portal vein thrombosis, hepatic venous outflow tract ...

Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE ... s body temperature—called therapeutic hypothermia—is often used as a treatment. A review in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology highlights ...

One of these is hepatic encephalopathy (HE), a buildup of ... Prescribing information notes that continuous, long-term treatment with lactulose can help to reduce the severity of HE or prevent ...