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The diagnosis of hepatic encephalopathy is a clinical one, once other causes for confusion or coma have been excluded; no test fully diagnoses or excludes it. Serum ammonia levels are elevated in 90% of people, but not all hyperammonaemia (high ammonia levels in the blood) is associated with encephalopathy.
Fatty liver disease (FLD), also known as hepatic steatosis and steatotic liver disease (SLD), is a condition where excess fat builds up in the liver. [1] Often there are no or few symptoms.
Liver failure is the inability of the liver to perform its normal synthetic and metabolic functions as part of normal physiology.Two forms are recognised, acute and chronic (cirrhosis). [1]
A coma is a deep state of prolonged unconsciousness in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light, or sound, ...
Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver tissue. [3] [5] Some people or animals with hepatitis have no symptoms, whereas others develop yellow discoloration of the skin and whites of the eyes (), poor appetite, vomiting, tiredness, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.
Sal Hepatica is a mineral salt laxative that was produced and marketed by Bristol-Myers from its inception in 1887, becoming its first nationally recognized product in 1903, until 1958. When dissolved in water, it was said to reproduce the taste and effect of the natural mineral waters of Bohemia .
A coma cocktail is a combination of substances administered in an emergency to comatose individuals when the cause of the coma has not yet been determined. [1] The intention is to work against various causes of a coma seen in an emergency setting including drug overdoses and hypoglycemia .
arteria hepatica communis: MeSH: D006499: TA98: A12.2.12.015: TA2: 4214: FMA: 14771: Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata] The common hepatic artery is a short ...