Disabling portosystemic encephalopathy in a non-cirrhotic patient: Successful endovascular treatment of a giant inferior mesenteric-caval shunt via the left internal iliac vein

Hepatic encephalopathy is suspected in non-cirrhotic cases of encephalopathy because the symptoms are accompanied by hyperammonaemia. Some cases have been misdiagnosed as psychiatric diseases and consequently patients hospitalized in psychiatric institutions or geriatric facilities. Therefore, the i...

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Autores principales: de Martinis, Luca, Groppelli, Gloria, Corti, Riccardo, Moramarco, Lorenzo Paolo, Quaretti, Pietro, De Cata, Pasquale, Rotondi, Mario, Chiovato, Luca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5743513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29308002
http://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v23.i47.8426

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