Cerebral CT scan abnormalities in cholestatic and hepatocellular disease and their relationship to neuropsychologic test performance
| Autor: | Patricia Bernthal, David H. Van Thiel, Ralph E. Tarter, Andrea M. Hegedus, James W. Lecky, Amy Hays |
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| Rok vydání: | 1987 |
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Liver Cirrhosis Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Cholangitis Biopsy Encephalopathy Computed tomography Neuropsychological Tests Cerebral edema medicine Humans Hepatic encephalopathy Hepatitis Chronic Subclinical infection Hepatology medicine.diagnostic_test Liver Cirrhosis Biliary business.industry Liver Diseases Neuropsychology Brain Neuropsychological test Middle Aged medicine.disease Liver Female Test performance Radiology Tomography X-Ray Computed business |
| Zdroj: | Hepatology. 7:107-114 |
| ISSN: | 1527-3350 0270-9139 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/hep.1840070122 |
| Popis: | Forty-nine nonalcoholic cirrhotic patients, on whom cranial CT scans were available, were administered a battery of neuropsychological tests. Although none of the subjects exhibited clinical signs or symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy, quantification of the CT scan image implicated cerebral edema and cortical atrophy. In addition numerous significant correlations were observed between the CT variables and neuropsychological test performance. The findings are conjectured to reflect previously unrecognized cerebral morphologic changes associated with chronic subclinical portal-systemic encephalopathy. |
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