Late symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy?

Update Date: 2024-12-25 Source: Network

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The survival time of hepatic encephalopathy can be said to be long and short. For patients with good constitution and smooth treatment and recuperation, some of them can survive for more than 10 years. The key lies in the active treatment after the onset, especially the control of the primary disease to avoid the aggravation of hepatic encephalopathy. Late symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy? Let's talk about it

Late symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy?

The second stage (also known as pre coma), manifested as confusion of consciousness, sleep disorders, mainly behavioral disorders, the symptoms of the previous stage. The ability of orientation and understanding decreased, the concept of time, place and character was confused, the simple calculation could not be completed, the speech was unclear, the writing was obstructed, and the behavior was abnormal. There are many mistakes in sleeping time, such as sleeping in the daytime and waking up at night, hallucination, fear, mania, and so on. At this time must not ignore the patient's physical signs, at this time has appeared tension.

In the third stage (also known as lethargy stage), the patients are mainly lethargic and psychosis. Most of the time, they are in a state of lethargy, but they can wake up late and answer questions when they wake up, but they often have delirium and hallucination.

The fourth stage (also called coma stage) is characterized by complete loss of consciousness and inability to wake up. During the physical examination, all kinds of reflexes disappeared, muscle tension decreased, pupil dilated and EEG abnormal.

matters needing attention

Hepatic encephalopathy is a serious complication of liver cirrhosis and advanced liver cancer, such as improper nursing and treatment, with high mortality. Therefore, preventive measures should be taken for patients with liver cirrhosis and liver cancer, especially for patients with middle and advanced liver cirrhosis and liver cancer, so as to greatly reduce the incidence of hepatic encephalopathy.