Living With Hepatic encephalopathy
By Dr. Joseph Gomez, MD · · Neurology
Patients often ask us about hepatic encephalopathy. Here is what our Neurology clinicians want you to know.
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Topic: hepatic encephalopathy. A brain disease that is characterized by loss of brain function, the occurrence of confusion, altered level of consciousness, and coma that results when the liver is unable to remove toxins from the blood.
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