New methods for assessing hepatic encephalopathy include clinical scales, neuropsychological tests, imaging of portal-systemic circulation, and magnetic resonance of the brain.

The Iowa Hawkeyes lost three starters to the transfer portal on Monday, and more players are reportedly ready to add their names to the list after the university announced Stacy May-Johnson as the ...

This is a prospective cohort study of patients with FC ≥18 years of age between 2019 and 2022. Systemic and portal hepatic clearance of cholate was assessed using a dual cholate clearance assay ...

Among patients with hepatic cirrhosis, carvedilol better controlled portal hypertension (PH) than propranolol, according to study results published in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. Portal ...

Portal-Systemic Encephalopathy Due to Congenital Intrahepatic Shunts Authors: Neil H. Raskin, M.D., John B. Price, M.D., and Robert A. Fishman, M.D. Author Info & Affiliations ...

Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen Medical College, Xiamen, China Introduction: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) complicated by thrombotic ...

The relation between acute or chronic encephalopathy and either natural or surgical portal–systemic shunts has been well established during the past eight years although recognition of this ...

Most veins in the body, called systemic veins, carry blood toward the heart. The portal vein and its contributing veins are different because they carry blood to the liver first. Collectively, these ...

Hashimoto encephalopathy and Hashimoto thyroiditis share a common link: they’re both thyroid-related autoimmune diseases. This means that they make your immune system produce antithyroid antibodies.

Figure 3. Subgroup analysis results of improvement of L-ornithine-L-aspartate (LOLA) for hepatic encephalopathy (HE). RR = relative risk; SHE = subclinical HE.

The prevalence of Portal Vein Thrombosis (PVT) varies significantly at different stages of liver disease: 10% in compensated patients, 17% in decompensated patients, 9% in those with acute ...