Decrease in the Volume of White Matter Lesions with Improvement of Hepatic Encephalopathy

SUMMARY: MR imaging has found abnormalities compatible with low-grade edema in the brain of patients with cirrhosis that have been related to hepatic encephalopathy. We present 3 patients with hepatic encephalopathy who exhibit supratentorial focal or diffuse white matter lesions compatible with small-vessel brain disease. The volume and number of white matter lesions reduced with the improvement of hepatic encephalopathy, suggesting the participation of the blood-brain barrier in the pathogenesis of brain edema in hepatic encephalopathy.

• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  American Journal of Neuroradiology

• Publication date

  2007-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3174/ajnr.A0611PMID 17846199PMCID PMC8134365
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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