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Extractions: Hepatic Encephalopathy DEFINITION: Hepatic encephalopathy is a syndrome seen in patients with cirrhosis of the liver. It is characterized by personality changes, intellectual impairment, and a depressed level of consciousness , fluctuating neurologic signs, asterixis or "flapping tremor," and distinctive electroencephalographic changes. An important prerequisite for the syndrome is diversion of portal blood into the systemic circulation through porto-systemic collateral vessels. Indeed, hepatic encephalopathy may develop in non-cirrhotic patients who have undergone portocaval shunt surgery. The development of hepatic encephalopathy is explained to some extent by the effect of neurotoxic substances, which occurs in the setting of cirrhosis and portal hypertension. Subtle signs of hepatic encephalopathy are seen in nearly 70% of patients with cirrhosis. Symptoms may be debilitating in a significant number of patients and are seen in 24-53% of patients who undergo portosystemic shunt surgery. About 30% patients dying of end-stage liver disease will experience significant encephalopathy, approaching coma. Encephalopathy may be acute and reversible or chronic and progressive . In severe cases, irreversible coma and death may occur. Acute episodes may recur with variable frequency
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Extractions: 13. Hepatic Encephalopathy / L.J. Worobetz page 537 Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a complex, potentially reversible neuropsychiatric condition that occurs as a consequence of acute or chronic liver disease. It is characterized by changes of personality, consciousness, behavior and neuromuscular function ( Table 20 ). Early features include reversal of sleep pattern, apathy, hypersomnia, irritability and personal neglect. In later stages, delirium and coma may occur. Neurologic signs may include hyperreflexia, rigidity, myoclonus and asterixis. Asterixis is not specific to hepatic encephalopathy and may be present in other causes of metabolic encephalopathy. Seizures and lateralizing signs are uncommon and are more commonly seen in acute than chronic liver failure. Clinically, a number of encephalopathic patterns can be observed: acute, acute recurrent, chronic recurrent and chronic permanent encephalopathy (the last often forms part of the spectrum of acquired hepatocerebral degeneration). TABLE 20. Grading of hepatic encephalopathy
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Extractions: Alcohol. Few drugs wreak so much havoc so often and with such predictability. And to complicate matters, alcoholic patients are frequently uncooperative, have more than one underlying disease, and a compliance profile that is usually less than optimal. Critical diagnostic findings may be obscured by ethanol intoxication, and disposition decisions are complicated by the patients compromised capacity for vigilant self-care and appropriate follow-up. Add to these pitfalls the fact that chronic alcoholics tend to be poor historians and that the range of medical and surgical disorders afflicting them can fill a textbook of medicine, and it is clear why these patients are prone to falling between the diagnostic cracks. Although alcoholic patients are frequent users of emergency care, physician recognition of various alcohol-related diseases is poor. Some alcohol-related conditions require immediate lifesaving interventions, whereas others require hospital admission or outpatient referral for resolution. Whatever the diagnosis and ultimate disposition, recognition of chronic alcohol abuse as a cause for these problems is imperative so that early care can be instituted.
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Extractions: Bibliografía de los artículos : Encefalopatía Espongiforme Bovina (EEB)-Enfermedad de Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Kuru Enfermedades por priones Bibliografía de Zoonosis Bibliografía del artículo: Encefalopatía Espongiforme Bovina (EEB)-Enfermedad de Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Kuru (Selecciones Veterinarias, Vol. 9, No 1, 2001) Mandell, Douglas and Bennetts. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. Chapter 67: Prion Diseases of the Central Nervous System (Transmissible Neurodegenerative Diseases), Kenneth L. Tyler. Fourth Edition, Churchill Livingstone, 1995. American Public Health Association. Control of Communicable Diseases Manual. Sixteenth Edition. Abram S. Benenson, Editor, 1995 OMS, Enfermedades emergentes y otras transmisibles. Informe de Brotes: Enf.de Creutzfeld-Jakob. Internet, 21 de marzo de 1996. Oficina Internacional de Epizootias (O.I.E.). Código Zoosanitario Internacional, actualizaciones 1994 y 1995. Capítulo 3.2.13. Encefalopatía Espongiforme Bovina, 1995. OMS. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), Fact sheet N113 March 1996, Internet http://www.who.org
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Extractions: All patients should be undergo oesophago-gastro-duodenoscopy (OGD) as per GI Bleeding Guidelines. In patients in whom variceal bleeding is suspected empirical treatment with Octreotide (see below) is recommended prior to diagnostic OGD. Management of suspected bleeding oesophageal varices: URGENT SCLEROTHERAPY/BANDING continued massive haematemesis encephalopathy suspected aspiration Proceed with oesophago-gastro-duodenoscopy (OGD) and carry out variceal band ligation/sclerotherapy If bleeding not controlled SSB tube (by experienced physician only) Increase PEEP Consider TIPPS If bleeding controlled repeat OGD in 24 hrs: IF uncertain that bleeding has been arrested.
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Extractions: High mental functions in healthy individuals and in cerebrovascular diseases A knowledge of time parameters of the high mental functions of the brain under normal and pathological conditions may serve as a key to understanding of their intimate mechanisms. During the first stage of the study a set of different tests including word association, paired words learning was used to compare these indices in patients with atherosclerotic discirculatory encephalopathy and in normal individuals. The dynamics and volume of the short-term memory and processes of attention were evaluated. An increase of the response latencies in the paired words tests and a decrease of both volume of short-term memory and the processes of attention were identifid. Application of the tests with semantically similar or unlike words was informative. M.Yu. Drobizhev, S.I. Ovcharenko, E.N. Ischenko, K.A. Baturin, O.V. Vishnevskaya
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