Nutritional support in hepatic encephalopathy
โ Scribed by Barry A Mizock
- Book ID
- 114287774
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 82 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0899-9007
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Because of the increasing burden of hepatitis C and fatty liver disease, there is an explosion in the prevalence of chronic liver failure and hence its complications. The onset of Hepatic Encephalopathy (HE) in these patients has a significant impact on the quality of life, morbidity and mortality.
The authors undertook a meta analysis of nine randomized clinical trials (RCTs) in which modified amino acid solutions that contained supplemental amounts of branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) were compared with other forms of therapy of hepatic encephalopathy (HE). When five RCTs were pooled, analys