This study shows that the incidence of hepatic encephalopathy was lower in cirrhotic patients with upper gastrointestinal bleed treated with lactulose as compared with patients not treated with ...

Lactulose is a medication used to treat hepatic encephalopathy, a complication of cirrhosis. It works on your digestive system to reduce levels of toxins like ammonia. If you have cirrhosis ...

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

Lactulose is the first-line therapy for hepatic encephalopathy. However, individual requirements with respect to the dose and frequency of lactulose are highly variable, which can result in both ...

Initially, we suspected vitamin B12 deficiency with hepatic encephalopathy and prerenal renal failure. Therefore, intravenous vitamin B12 supplementation (more than 1000 µg daily), branched chain ...

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

If dietary management and oral lactulose are ineffective, intravenous arginine may be considered to ... The primary goal of CPSS treatment is to prevent or reverse complications, including hepatic ...

1 Department of Paediatric Neurology, Sheffield Children's Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK 2 Department of Paediatric Neuroradiology, Sheffield Children's Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, ...

Fatty liver is also known as hepatic steatosis. It happens when fat builds up in the liver. Having small amounts of fat in your liver is normal, but too much can become a health problem.

Liver cysts are fluid-filled sacs that form in the liver. Also known as hepatic cysts, they can develop before birth or later in life due to infection or genetic disorders like polycystic liver ...

Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a disease that was first found in cattle. It's related to a disease in humans called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Both ...