Hepatic encephalopathy occurs in patients with portal hypertension and cirrhosis. |
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Thiamine supplementation is essential in malnourished patients for the prevention of Wernicke's encephalopathy. |
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Why Korsakoff's psychosis develops in only some patients with Wernicke's encephalopathy is unclear. |
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Patients with encephalopathy require a low-protein diet and enough lactulose to produce three or four bowel movements daily. |
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Improvement was defined as partial or complete resolution of clinical or subclinical symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy. |
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All 10 patients had frontal-temporal theta wave activity, which indicated diffuse changes characteristic of metabolic encephalopathy. |
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They will also support research into the causes and treatment of myalgic encephalopathy, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome. |
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Mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is a fatal disease of the central nervous system. |
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Eating beef from cattle infected with mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, can cause a fatal brain disorder in humans. |
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The prions that cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease aren't broken down by normal cooking temperatures. |
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Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, eats holes in the brains of cattle. |
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Scientists originally believed the goat had scrapie, a disease similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy. |
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Seven months later, the UK Central Veterinary Laboratory diagnosed bovine spongiform encephalopathy as the cause of its death. |
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National Cattlemen's Beef Association identified bovine spongiform encephalopathy as a crisis issue more than 20 years ago. |
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Younger cattle are less likely to suffer from the fatal brain wasting disease, officially known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy. |
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Prions are misshaped proteins believed to cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease. |
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, known as mad cow disease, surfaced in the UK in 1986 and has affected nearly 200,000 cattle. |
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Chronic alcoholics are at risk of Wernicke's encephalopathy, in which delirium becomes complicated by ataxia and ophthalmoplegia. |
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The combination of gastrointestinal haemorrhage and hepatic encephalopathy indicates a poor prognosis. |
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Seizures are usually due to hypoxic encephalopathy, hemorrhage or cerebral infarction. |
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Aggressive treatment of hydrothorax and ascites can lead easily to hepatic encephalopathy. |
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Routine post-mortem testing did not rule out BSE, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly called mad cow. |
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In Perth, maternal pyrexia and preceding viral illness were both importantly associated with encephalopathy. |
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An announcement was made that a Siamese cat had died of a spongiform encephalopathy. |
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Hypertensive encephalopathy is the syndrome of central nervous system impairment associated with hypertensive crisis. |
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Chapter 5, by Martin Groschup et al, describes immunohistochemical analysis of the abnormal prion proteins in bovine spongiform encephalopathy and scrapie. |
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Of course, some are country specific, as was demonstrated during the 1990s by the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the British beef and dairy herds. |
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Like mad cow disease and CWD, CJD is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy that kills its victims by filling their brains with microscopic sponge-like holes. |
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This recessively inherited disorder classically presents during infancy and early childhood with a severe illness characterised by encephalopathy and hypoglycaemia. |
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One baby had signs of hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy with fits. |
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Of course the participants of the sport are at higher risk for the cumulative effects of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. |
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More than five million cattle across Europe have been killed to stop the spread of mad cow disease, formally called bovine spongiform encephalopathy. |
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The border had been closed since May 20, 2003, since the detection of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in an Alberta cow. |
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Isolated sulphite oxidase deficiency mimics the features of hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy. |
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He was very adept at portocaval shunts, although we knew little about hepatic encephalopathy at that time. |
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Wernicke's encephalopathy is characterized by nystagmus, abducens and conjugate gaze palsy, gait ataxia and mental confusion. |
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The first case of spongiform encephalopathy in a zebu was identified in a zoo in Switzerland. |
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The patient remained thyrotoxic with continuing fevers and worsening encephalopathy, and hence his methimazole was changed to propylthiouracil. |
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Double-blind placebo-controlled trial of phosphatidylserine in elderly patients with arteriosclerotic encephalopathy. |
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Four out of five patients with cirrhosis will develop hepatic encephalopathy but there have been no new treatments for decades. |
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Prognostic value of continuous electroencephalographic recording in full term infants with hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy. |
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Bismuth Subsalicylate toxicity as a cause of prolonged encephalopathy with myoclonus. |
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Isolation from cattle of a prion strain distinct from that causing bovine spongiform encephalopathy. |
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Mad cow disease, known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy in animals, eventually causes a spongy deterioration of the brain. |
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Clinical signs include pyrexia, malaise, kinesalgia, opsoclonus, ataxia, and myoclonic encephalopathy. |
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An electroencephalogram showed generalized slow waves, consistent with severe diffuse encephalopathy. |
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The images are useful in detection of, for example, a bone abscess or a spongiform encephalopathy produced by a prion. |
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When liver function worsens and presents with symptoms such as jaundice, malaise, ascites, edema, hepatic encephalopathy, it is called decompensated cirrhosis. |
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These changes were in keeping with Wernicke's encephalopathy. |
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The brain disorder called Wernicke encephalopathy typically occurs in people who have disorders such as anorexia that lead to malnourishment, Khaleej Times reported. |
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Electroencephalography showed that the patient had encephalopathy. |
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There is a chapter on bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Scrapie in sheep as well as a chapter on chronic wasting disease and various other animal prion diseases. |
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Prions are now recognized as etiologic agents of other transmissible spongiform encepalopathies, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. |
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The outbreaks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy have limited some traditional uses of cattle for food, for example the eating of brains or spinal cords. |
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Among the entries are acute pulmonary oedema, carbon monoxide, encephalopathy, haemophilia, lice, nitric acid, protozoa, Ross River virus disease, and yellow fever. |
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Discrimination between scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in sheep by molecular size immunoreactivity and glycoprofile of prion protein. |
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Postoperative hyponatremic encephalopathy in menstruant females. |
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For example, in 1997-1998 influenza type A was spread throughout Japan, resulting in the death of many infants due to acute encephalopathy and cerebritis. |
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Like the eternal riddle of which came first, the chicken or the egg, some scientists have pondered the source of the first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy. |
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