Opinion|Videos|June 18, 2024
HE Experts on Symptoms, Risk Factors, Diagnosis Challenges, and Severity Grading
The expert panelists explore the symptoms and risk factors associated with HE, the challenges in diagnosing the condition due to its resemblance to neuropsychiatric l disorders, and the methods used to assess and grade the severity of the disease.
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Please describe the symptoms and risk factors associated with HE?
- Clinical diagnosis
- Approaches to diagnosis that are concordant with current guideline recommendations.
Please explain how HE is classified and why it matters? Also, how do we grade severity?Vilstrup et al 2014
- What is the distinction between covert and overt hepatic encephalopathy? Bellafante et al 2024
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