The absence of sensitive, reliable tests for encephalopathy make the physician's personal observations and professional judgment the most valuable diagnostic tools.
he is diagnosed as fulminant hepatic failure
349.83, E935.3
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.
Frederick Steigmann has written: 'Hepatic encephalopathy' -- subject(s): Hepatic encephalopathy
The scientific name is "static motor encephalopathy".
Hepatic encephalopathy (sometimes hepatoencephalopathy) is a potentially-reversible neuropsychiatric abnormality in the setting of liver failure, whether chronic (as in cirrhosis), or acutely. It can be diagnosed only after exclusion of other neurological, psychiatric, infectious, and metabolic etiologies.Encephalopathy literally translated means "disease of the brain". In some cases it refers to permanent and irreversible brain damage or injury. In other cases it can refer to a condition of the brain that is totally reversible and curable.
encephalopathy
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy: Scrapie in sheep and Mad Cow disease (or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy)
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Sarah A. Lister has written: 'Bovine spongiform encephalopathy - BSE, or \\' -- subject- s -: Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Prevention
hepatic encephalopathy