Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a serious complication of Neuropsychological tests used for the assessment of advanced liver disease and refers to neuropsychiatric abnorsubclinical hepatic encephalopathy (SHE) may overdimalities (such as disorders of personality, altered levels of agnose SHE because
Clinical efficacy of lactulose in cirrhotic patients with and without subclinical hepatic encephalopathy
β Scribed by A Watanabe; T Sakai; S Sato; F Imai; M Ohto; Y Arakawa; G Toda; K Kobayashi; Y Muto; T Tsujii; H Kawasaki; K Okita; K Tanikawa; S Fujiyama; S Shimada
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 192 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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