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Despite intensive treatment, encephalopathy caused by acute liver inflammation (fulminant hepatitis) is fatal for as many as 80% of patients. Those with chronic liver failure often die in hepatic coma.
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What is the medical terminology breakdown of Encephalopathy?
Encephalopathy: the prefix is en- meaning within. -cephal- is the root word meaning head and the suffix is -opathy meaning disease. Encephalopathy = disease in the head or brain.
How can mad cow disease be treated or cured?
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, the scientific name for mad cow disease) cannot be treated or cured - it is progressive and 100% fatal in all cattle that contract it.
What has the author Frederick Steigmann written?
Frederick Steigmann has written: 'Hepatic encephalopathy' -- subject(s): Hepatic encephalopathy
What is the hardest word to prounuce?
encephalopathy
A serious disease of sheep and cattle?
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy: Scrapie in sheep and Mad Cow disease (or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy)
What is scrapies?
Scrapies is a transmissable spongiform encephalopathy that affects sheep and goats. It is an infectious, fatal, chronic disease with clinical signs of pruritis (itchiness), gait abnormalities, recumbency and illness for about six months but the incubation period is two or more years.
The proteins implicated in spongiform encephalopathy are?
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Is encephalopathy is complication of diabetes mellitus?
Yes.
What has the author Sarah A Lister written?
Sarah A. Lister has written: 'Bovine spongiform encephalopathy - BSE, or \\' -- subject- s -: Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Prevention
How is encephalopathy diagnosed?
The absence of sensitive, reliable tests for encephalopathy make the physician's personal observations and professional judgment the most valuable diagnostic tools.
Rifaximin is used to treat what diseases?
hepatic encephalopathy
What are the consequences of liver failure?
Liver failure is a serious chronic medical condition which requires treatment. Liver failure signs and symptoms include ascites (swelling of the abdomen), gastrointestinal bleeding, encephalopathy, and dilation of blood vessels on the abdomen. Untreated liver failure may be fatal.
