Encephalopathy and Nitrogen Metabolism in Liver Failure

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Novel aspects of nitrogen metabolism in liver disease
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   Chapter 2 The interorgan exchange of amino acids and ammonia and the effect of plasmapheresis in acute liver failure
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   Chapter 3 Metabolic consequences of an upper gastro-intestinal bleed in patients with cirrhosis
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   Chapter 4 Citrin deficiency
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   Chapter 5 Assessment of hepatic encephalopathy
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   Chapter 6 Evaluation of mental state in a clinical trial of MARS for patients with acute hepatic encephalopathy: comparison of two scales
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   Chapter 7 Relationship between minimal hepatic encephalopathy and extrapyramidal signs in cirrhotic patients
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   Chapter 8 Evaluation of visual focus in cirrhotic patients
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    Chapter 9 Detection of minimal hepatic encephalopathy: EEG spectral analysis vs. cognitive evoked potentials
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    Chapter 10 Analysis of critical flicker frequency threshold in hepatic encephalopathy: dynamics and cortical activations
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    Chapter 11 Cortical origin of mini-asterixis in hepatic encephalopathy
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    Chapter 12 Imaging studies in hepatic encephalopathy
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    Chapter 13 Subclinical and overt hepatic encephalopathy — detection and treatment control by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS)
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    Chapter 14 Long-term observations on rats with thioacetamide-induced hepatic failure
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    Chapter 15 Reversal of Fischer’s ratio in an anesthetised porcine model of acute liver failure
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    Chapter 16 Experience with neuropsychiatric complications of interferon-based therapy for chronic viral hepatitis
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    Chapter 17 Cognitive effects of long-term interferon treatment for chronic viral hepatitis
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    Chapter 18 Is fatigue of cholestasis mediated by altered central serotoninergic neurotransmission?
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    Chapter 19 Reduced pallidal magnetisation transfer ratios are associated with fatigue in pre-cirrhotic patients with primary biliary cirrhosis
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    Chapter 20 Pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy
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    Chapter 21 Effect of blood plasma components from patients with hepatic encephalopathy on electrophysiological activity of primary frontal cortex networks in vitro
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    Chapter 22 Hyperammonemia and liver failure alter signal transduction associated with glutamate receptors and modulation of guanylate cyclase by nitric oxide
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    Chapter 23 Increased cerebral and peripheral vasodilation, and whole body nitric oxide production after insertion of a transjugular intrahepatic portal-systemic stent in patients with cirrhosis
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    Chapter 24 Concomitant changes in melatonin metabolism and in hypothalamic histamine in rats with a portacaval anastomosis
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    Chapter 25 Brain energy metabolism in acute liver failure: studies using NMR spectroscopy
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    Chapter 26 Brain diffusion weighted MRI in cirrhosis
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    Chapter 27 Role of manganese in hepatic encephalopathy
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    Chapter 28 The mitochondrial permeability transition in ammonia neurotoxicity
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    Chapter 29 Astroglial protein tyrosine nitration by ammonia
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    Chapter 30 Use of NMR spectroscopy for the study of ammonia metabolism in astrocytes and neurons: role of glutamine synthesis in astrocytes
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    Chapter 31 Brain uptake of ammonia in fulminant hepatic failure: the role of cerebral blood flow
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    Chapter 32 Effect of erythropoietin on intracranial pressure and brain water in rats with hyperammonemia
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    Chapter 33 Prevention of brain edema in acute liver failure by hypothermia: recent advances
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    Chapter 34 Treatment of hepatic encephalopathy
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    Chapter 35 Rifaximin reduces EEG relative beta power in patients with minimal hepatic encephalopathy: preliminary findings
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    Chapter 36 Naloxone treatment of human hepatic encephalopathy
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    Chapter 37 Liver support systems: issues and challenges
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    Chapter 38 Clinical application of bioartificial liver support systems
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    Chapter 39 Molecular Adsorbents Recirculating System (MARS) for acute decompensation of chronic liver disease: an early clinical experience
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    Chapter 40 Hypothermia for the management of intracranial hypertension in acute liver failure
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    Chapter 41 The potential of molecular biological techniques in research on hepatic encephalopathy