Symptoms that are sometimes diagnosed as part of dementia might actually be related to a treatable liver condition, according ...

Hepatic encephalopathy – cognitive impairment caused by liver failure – impacts more than 40 percent of patients with advanced liver disease (cirrhosis). The brain impairments it causes are hard to ...

Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) in acute liver injury signifies a serious prognosis. Brain edema and intracranial hypertension are major causes of death in this syndrome. Comparison of HE in acute ...

In patients with cirrhosis who received a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, advanced age was associated with a higher rate of mortality and hepatic encephalopathy 1 year after the ...

In severe cases, fluid accumulates in the brain (cerebral edema) and you can lose consciousness and ... prevents these organs from filtering ammonia out of your blood. Hepatic encephalopathy: This ...

Background Recent studies have shown that follow-up head CT is a strong predictor of functional outcomes in patients with middle cerebral artery stroke and ... models of potentially lethal malignant ...

Objective Altered bacterial composition is associated with disease progression in cirrhosis but the role of virome, especially phages, is unclear. Design Cross-sectional and pre/post rifaximin cohorts ...

Hypobaric hypoxia is widely recognized as a prominent risk factor for high-altitude cerebral edema (HACE), which contributes to the exacerbation of multiple pathological mechanisms, including ...

We have developed a fully synthetic lung surfactant preparation, based on designed analogues of surfactant proteins SP-B and SP-C, for treatment of respiratory distress syndrome in premature infants.

Astrocytes are one of the most abundant cell types in the mammalian central nervous system (CNS), and astrocyte swelling is the primary event associated with brain edema. Glutamate, the principal ...