Functional recovery from refractory hepatic encephalopathy following angiographic obliteration of a large, spontaneous portal-umbilical portosystemic shunt: a case report

BACKGROUND: Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) as a consequence of cirrhosis with portal hypertension has a profound impact on quality of life for both patients and caregivers, has no gold-standard diagnostic test, and is a risk factor for mortality. Spontaneous portosystemic shunts (SPSS) are common in pa...

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Autores principales: Ngu, Natalie L. Y., Saxby, Edward, Farmer, Caitlin C., Lyon, Stuart, Le, Suong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9402870/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36002541
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42155-022-00320-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9402870/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36002541
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42155-022-00320-3

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