Hepatic Encephalopathy
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The liver is the most important organ for the well-functioning of other organs because of its vital role in nutrition, metabolism and secretion. Any disturbance in normal homeostasis of liver as it happens in acute liver failure (ALF) and chronic liver disease (cirrhosis) will lead to extra hepatic manifestations of liver disease, among them one is encephalopathy. And this encephalopathy caused by liver abnormality is known as Hepatic encephalopathy (HE).(1) HE occurs in 50-70% of patients with chronic liver disease and this is one of the sign of decompensated chronic liver disease. Occurrence of HE associated with poor prognosis with survival of approximately 42% at 1 year.(2)
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تاریخ انتشار 2012