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This volume provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of hepatic encephalopathy. Through a case-based approach, the text reviews new data and studies about the role of microbiota in liver disease and hepatic encephalopathy, explores the burden of hepatic encephalopathy on readmissions, costs, and patient care, and highlights management strategies for patients in differing stages of hepatic encephalopathy. Exploratory new therapies and treatment targets are also discussed in the guide. Written by experts in the field, Diagnosis and Management of Hepatic Encephalopathy: A Case-based Guide is a valuable resource for physicians and researchers who deal with this challenging complication of cirrhosis.

Hepatic encephalopathy. --- Medicine. --- Gastroenterology. --- Hepatology. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Gastroenterology --- Internal medicine --- Digestive organs --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Diseases --- Encephalopathy, Hepatic --- Portal-systemic encephalopathy --- Porto-hepatic encephalopathy --- Portosystemic encephalopathy --- Brain damage --- Liver --- Mesocaval shunt --- Portacaval anastomosis --- Toxic psychoses --- Failure --- Complications --- Clinical medicine. --- Medicine, Clinical --- Medicine --- Gastroenterology .

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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. Unfortunately, the approach observed by most clinicians to this complex disorder is minimalistic.               Hepatic Encephalopathy provides a comprehensive review on pathophysiology and clinically important aspects in HE. Topics in basic physiology, nitrogen metabolism, new insights into pathogenesis and brain edema are covered in great detail. The authors have made a special effort by simplifying the complex aspects of pathogenesis and diagnosis so that it can be easily understood and applied clinically. This volume also focuses on recent developments regarding diagnoses of subtle forms of HE, also known as minimal or covert HE as well as on new treatments. Hepatic Encephalopathy will be of great value to gastroenterologists, hepatologists, pathologists, medical residents, fellows, internists, and general practitioners who treat patients with hepatic encephalopathy.  .

Hepatic encephalopathy. --- Hepatology. --- Liver -- Diseases. --- Hepatic encephalopathy --- Liver Failure --- Brain Diseases, Metabolic --- Brain Diseases --- Hepatic Insufficiency --- Metabolic Diseases --- Liver Diseases --- Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Digestive System Diseases --- Diseases --- Nervous System Diseases --- Hepatic Encephalopathy --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Gastroenterology --- Encephalopathy, Hepatic --- Portal-systemic encephalopathy --- Porto-hepatic encephalopathy --- Portosystemic encephalopathy --- Medicine. --- Gastroenterology. --- Pathology. --- Primary care (Medicine). --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Primary Care Medicine. --- Primary medical care --- Medical care --- Disease (Pathology) --- Medical sciences --- Medicine, Preventive --- Internal medicine --- Digestive organs --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Brain damage --- Liver --- Mesocaval shunt --- Portacaval anastomosis --- Toxic psychoses --- Failure --- Complications --- Clinical medicine. --- Emergency medicine. --- Medicine, Emergency --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies --- Medicine, Clinical --- Gastroenterology .