The associated underlying disease is used to classify hepatic encephalopathy: type A is related to acute liver injury, type B is related to portosystemic shunting, and type C is related to cirrhosis.

The advanced stages of overt HE (Table 2) are readily recognized because of alterations in cognition, personality, and sleeping patterns along with the physical findings of asterixis, drowsiness, or ...

Research lays the groundwork for an app that may one day be able to listen to the patient read a paragraph and detect hepatic encephalopathy from their speech. Research from the University of Michigan ...