Sensory information processing in patients with nonalcoholic cirrhosis. Short-latency visual, auditory, and somatosensory event-related potentials.
Visual, auditory and brainstem event-related potentials were obtained from patients with hepatocellular and cholestatic disease and a control group of normal subjects. The results did not reveal systematic neurophysiologic disturbances in persons with well compensated cirrhosis. It is concluded that short-latency event-related potentials are rather insensitive for detecting subclinical hepatic encephalopathy.
Sandford
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, PA 15261.
Tarter
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Sclabassi
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Van Thiel
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D000328:Adult; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000503:physiopathology; D002761:Cholangitis / Q000503:physiopathology; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual; D005260:Female; D006505:Hepatitis / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology