Determination of Turkish norms of psychometric tests for diagnosing minimal hepatic encephalopathy and proposal of a high sensitive screening test battery

Autor: Çağdaş Kalkan, Cansu Özbaş, Aysun Kartal, Onur Keskin, Irfan Karahan, Cihan Yurdaydin, Karin Weissenborn, Hartmut Hecker, Fulya Gunsar, Fatih Oğuz Önder, Burcu Kahveci Öncü, Burak Özbaş, Genco Gençdal, Ömer Özütemiz, Murat Akyildiz, Ramazan Idilman
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Popis: Background Psychometric hepatic encephalopathy score (PHES) needs local standardization. Aims This study aimed at standardizing PHES for Turkish patients and compare them with German norms; to determine minimal hepatic encephalopathy (mHE) prevalence with two different methods [PHES battery and Critical Flicker Frequency (CFF)] and to assess whether sub-tests of the battery can be used for screening for mHE. Methods Healthy volunteers (n = 816; 400 male) and cirrhotics (n = 124; 58 male) were included. For mHE diagnosis PHES score threshold was set at
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