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Rare Cause of Hepatic Encephalopathy: Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
Junghoon Ha* and Byoung Kwan Son
Department of Gastroenterology, Eulji University School of Medicine, Eulji Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
- *Corresponding Author:
- Junghoon Ha
Department of Gastroenterology
Eulji University School of Medicine
Eulji Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
Tel: +82-2-970-8211
E-mail: sbk1026@eulji.ac.kr
Received date: April 27, 2015; Accepted date: April 28, 2015; Published date: April 30, 2015
Citation: Ha J, Son BK (2015) Rare Cause of Hepatic Encephalopathy: Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia. J Neuroinfect Dis 6:e102. doi: 10.4172/2314-7326.1000e102
Copyright: © 2015 Ha J, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a neuropsychiatric syndrome which manifest as a various forms of cognitive, behavioral, and neurological impairment. The prevalence of HE is reported to be about 30~45% of patients with cirrhosis and when minimal hepatic encephalopathy, HE with a mild motor and cognitive dysfunction is included the prevalence increases up to 60%.
