A membrane transport protein called SLC13A5 has previously been linked to a severe form of epileptic encephalopathy.

Pathogenesis The two elements that confer the name to the syndrome and intervene in its clinical classification are neurological disturbance and liver failure. According to the characteristics of ...

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 ...

A previous report in this journal described seven cases of Hashimoto’s encephalopathy (HE) clinically resembling Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).1 Brain biopsies in such cases are rare and have ...

Growing evidence suggests an essential role of neuroinflammation in behavioral abnormalities associated with hepatic encephalopathy (HE). Here, we report the involvement of autotaxin–lysophosphatidic ...

Still, though Dr. Zachary Hoy, an infectious disease specialist with Pediatrix Medical Group, previously told HuffPost that “NB.1.8.1 would have similar symptoms to other COVID variants that have ...

Several other prion diseases have been described in farmed and wild animals: scrapie in sheep and goats, chronic wasting disease in deer and other cervids, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and ...