From January 2008 to September 2009, consecutive cirrhotic patients (age 18–70 years) who never had encephalopathy were ... included history of taking lactulose in the past 6 weeks, alcohol ...

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The current landscape of Hepatic Encephalopathy (HE) therapeutics relies primarily on medications. In the United States, the most commonly used treatments for HE include lactulose and rifaximin.

This study shows that the incidence of hepatic encephalopathy was lower in cirrhotic patients with upper gastrointestinal bleed treated with lactulose as compared with patients not treated with ...

Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh on Thursday (December 12, 2024) said the Centre and the State governments are making all efforts to bring a permanent solution to the ongoing crisis in the ...

Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a disease that was first found in cattle. It's related to a disease in humans called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Both ...

More information: Raymond Nicks et al, Neurodegeneration in the cortical sulcus is a feature of chronic traumatic encephalopathy and associated with repetitive head impacts, Acta Neuropathologica ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers investigated how exposure to head trauma from playing ice hockey can increase the risk of encephalopathy, dementia, and functional status.