Encephalopathy is a syndrome that involves global brain dysfunction. Encephalopathies have varying aetiologies: causes include for example ischaemic or traumatic brain injury, infectious agents ...

To minimize hypotension and to maintain urine output, many surgical patients are given large volumes of intravenous fluids perioperatively. Because large fluid volumes can create complications ...

Effects associated with metronidazole include polyneuropathy, dysarthria, ataxia, and encephalopathy. A prior review reported that peripheral neuropathy was more common in patients receiving ...

This is a MedPage Today story. In late September, Hurricane Helene damaged a major supplier of intravenous (IV) fluids. In this report, we follow up on what has happened since. Hurricane Helene ...

Background/aim: The purpose of this study was to examine the hepatic bacterial composition and metabolome characteristics of patients with NAFLD using 16S rDNA sequencing and metabolomics. The results ...

Rumors surrounding The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remake have been swirling around the world wide web for quite some time now. They’ve returned — and it seems the game could be coming sooner ...

Medically reviewed by Jonathan B. Jassey, DO High ammonia levels are toxic and cause symptoms such as headache, confusion, ...

The clinical presentation of HE varies widely by disease severity and neurocognitive impairment. In MHE, patients might not have obvious clinical changes but instead may have abnormal psychometric ...

Background and Aims: Acute variceal bleed (AVB) is an important precipitating factor for development of hepatic encephalopathy (HE). However, there is paucity of data on the role of lactulose for ...