Is flumazenil an alternative for the treatment of hepatic encephalopathy?
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Treatment of hepatic encephalopathy.
The mortality of coma complicating acute hepatic necrosis remains high at about 80% and recently exchange transfusion has shown some promising results. This line of treatment is based on the assumption that improvement depends on the removal of non-dialysable toxic substances from the circulation although some authors have suggested that the benefit might be due to the addition of deficient fac...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medwave
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0717-6384
DOI: 10.5867/medwave.2017.09.7113