P37Nutritional Education Resource Developed for Patients Living With Cirrhosis: Impact of Hepatic Encephalopathydoi:10.14309/01.ajg.0000948432.81653.92Manila SophasathHepato-Neuro Lab, CRCHUM, Montréal, Canada;Mélanie TremblayHepato-Neuro Lab, CRCHUM, Montréal, Canada;Crystèle Hogue...
All recipients were in intensive care units before transplantation with five having acute renal failure, three on mechanical ventilation, and all with hepatic encephalopathy. The median body weight for the donors and recipients was 58 kg (range, 41-84 kg) and 65 kg (range, 53-90 kg), ...
The donor complications most frequently cited in the medical literature include bile leaks and strictures, biloma, hepatic encephalopathy, wound infection, and pressure sores. In the wake of 2 donor deaths in the United States and subsequent media publicity, there have been new efforts by the ...
(i.e., the time between the initial clinic visit for HCV evaluation and the HCV treatment start date), to compare clinical characteristics between patients who received HCV treatment ≥ and < 6 months, and to identify predictors of longer time to HCV treatment in patients living with HCV. Th...
Living-donor liver transplantation for fulminant hepatic failure in adult patients with a left-lobe graft Surgery, 131 (1 Suppl) (2002), pp. S182-S189 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar [30] M. Rela, I. Kaliamoorthy, M.S. Reddy Current status of auxiliary partial orthotopic...
Early gastrointestinal (GIT) complications in the form of haematemesis, colonic perforation and hepatic encephalopathy affected 2(3%), 1(1.5%) and 1(1.5%) of our transplanted children respectively. They were managed by endoscopy, surgically and by medical treatment respectively with a successful out...
ALF was defined as sudden development of severe coagulopathy and encephalopathy within 26 weeks of onset of symptoms. In about 90% of patients, ALF was caused by etiologies that usually result in poor outcomes, including HBV infection (37%). Three cases (3%) were associated with acetaminophen ...
employed altered Schaedler flora (ASF), a defined consortium of eight gut commensal organisms with minimal urease effect, to treat the hyperammonemia-induced encephalopathy and neurotoxicity. Colonization of those ASF enabled the establishment of a new gut microbiome that resulted in the decrease in ...
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This model was later validated in a large group of patients with chronic liver disease and the results suggested that this model can accurately predict 3-month mortality, independently of aetiology and complications of portal hypertension such as spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, hepatic encephalopathy ...