Neurotransmitter Dysfunction in Hepatic Encephalopathy: New Approaches and New Findings
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Metabolic Brain Disease
- Vol. 16 (1/2) , 55-65
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1011614528751
Abstract
Hepatic Encephalopathy (HE) is a serious neuropsychiatric condition of both acute and chronic liver failure. Acute liver failure is characterized by rapid evolution of HE and by brain edema....Keywords
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