Sodium Benzoate for Treatment of Hepatic Encephalopathy.

Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a serious but usually reversible neuropsychiatric complication of cirrhosis, inborn errors of metabolism involving disorders of the urea cycle, and non-cirrhotic portosystemic shunting that most commonly arises from a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunting pr...

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Published in:Gastroenterology & Hepatology Vol. 9; no. 4; pp. 219 - 228
Main Authors: Misel, Michael L., Gish, Robert G., Patton, Heather, Mendler, Michel
Format: review Journal Article
Published: Gastro-Hep Communications, Inc Apr2013
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