Modern concept of bacterial complications at liver cirrhosis by M. S. Zharkova, M. V. Mayevskaya, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Proinflammatory response related to bacterial complication stimulates progression of liver failure, encephalopathy, disorders in blood coagulation system, thus triggering gastro-intestinal bleeding.Conclusion. …”
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L-Ornithine L-Aspartate for the Treatment of Sarcopenia in Chronic Liver Disease: The Taming of a Vicious Cycle by Roger F. Butterworth

“…Randomized clinical trials and meta-analyses confirm that L-ornithine L-aspartate (LOLA) is an effective ammonia-lowering agent currently employed for the treatment of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) that stimulates both urea synthesis by residual hepatocytes and muscle glutamine synthesis together with putative hepatoprotective actions. …”
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Central Nervous System Tuberculosis: An Imaging-Focused Review of a Reemerging Disease by Morteza Sanei Taheri, Mohammad Ali Karimi, Hamidreza Haghighatkhah, Ramin Pourghorban, Mohammad Samadian, Hosein Delavar Kasmaei

“…In this review, we describe the imaging characteristics of the different forms of CNS tuberculosis, including meningitis, tuberculoma, miliary tuberculosis, abscess, cerebritis, and encephalopathy.…”
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Survival from Maternal Cardiac Arrest Complicating Coronavirus Disease 2019 by Andrea D. Shields, John J. Byrne, Meghan Munisteri, Michael Wood

“…Her postpartum course was also associated with seizures attributed to posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome. After 19 days in the hospital, she was discharged home neurologically intact. …”
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Alzheimer’s Dementia due to Suspected CTE from Subconcussive Head Impact by Shauna H. Yuan, Sonya G. Wang

“…Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has been receiving increasing attention due to press coverage of professional football players. …”
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Autologous Cord Blood Therapy for Infantile Cerebral Palsy: From Bench to Bedside by A. Jensen

“…About 17 million people worldwide live with cerebral palsy, the most common disability in childhood, with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, preterm birth, and low birth weight being the most important risk factors. …”
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Veillonella Bacteremia in Alcoholic Hepatitis by Patrick Lee, Brandon K. K. Fields, Tom Liang, Michael P. Dubé, Seth Politano

“…Veillonella species have been correlated with disease severity and hepatic encephalopathy in liver diseases such as autoimmune hepatitis and cirrhosis. …”
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D-Lactic Acidosis: An Underrecognized Complication of Short Bowel Syndrome by N. Gurukripa Kowlgi, Lovely Chhabra

“…D-lactic acidosis or D-lactate encephalopathy is a rare condition that occurs primarily in individuals who have a history of short bowel syndrome. …”
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Acute Kidney Injury and Atypical Features during Pediatric Poststreptococcal Glomerulonephritis by Rose M. Ayoob, Andrew L. Schwaderer

“…Most PSGN patients do not experience complications, but rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis and hypertensive encephalopathy have been reported. This paper reports 17 patients seen in 1 year for PSGN including 4 with atypical PSGN, at a pediatric tertiary care center. …”
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Psychosis Crisis Associated with Thyrotoxicosis due to Graves’ Disease by Lilibet Urias-Uribe, Emmanuel Valdez-Solis, Claudia González-Milán, Claudia Ramírez-Rentería, Aldo Ferreira-Hermosillo

“…These associations are extremely rare and may be confused with Hashimoto’s encephalopathy, especially in the presence of anti-thyroid antibodies in cerebrospinal fluid. …”
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Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus Complicating Epstein-Barr Virus Encephalitis in a Child by Filippo Greco, Maria Donatella Cocuzza, Pierluigi Smilari, Giovanni Sorge, Lorenzo Pavone

“…Children with acute encephalopathy show prolonged electrographic seizure activity consistent with nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE). …”
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Adropin as an indicator of T2DM and its complications by Hu Zhang, Ning Chen

“…In this article, the underlying mechanisms of adropin for regulating obesity, T2DM and its complications including diabetic nephropathy, diabetic retinopathy, diabetic encephalopathy, diabetic vascular disease and diabetic cardiovascular disease were summarized. …”
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The Successful Use of Infliximab in a Relapsing Case of Susac’s Syndrome by Suran L. Fernando, Therese Boyle, Annika Smith, John D.E. Parratt

“…Susac’s syndrome is a rare and debilitating disease characterized by the triad of encephalopathy, branch retinal artery occlusions, and sensorineural hearing loss. …”
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Aseptic Meningitis Caused by Lassa Virus: Case Series Report by Peter O. Okokhere, Idowu A. Bankole, Christopher O. Iruolagbe, Benard E. Muoebonam, Martha O. Okonofua, Simeon O. Dawodu, George O. Akpede

“…Whereas Lassa fever encephalopathy and encephalitis are well described in the literature, there is paucity of data on Lassa virus meningitis. …”
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Vitamin B12 Deficiency due to Chlorofluorocarbon: A Case Report by Hemlata Bhaskar, Rekha Chaudhary

“…Deficiency of vitamin B12 clinically manifests as excessive daytime fatigue, memory difficulties, encephalopathy, myelopathy, peripheral neuropathy, and optic neuropathy. …”
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Statin-Associated Necrotizing Autoimmune Myositis Complicated by an Uncommon Adverse Effect to Treatment by Brian M. Fung, Emil R. Heinze, Andrew L. Wong

“…However, she subsequently developed acute bilateral vision loss and right side hemineglect; she was diagnosed with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES), thought to be a possible delayed adverse reaction to IVIG. …”
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From Prion Diseases to Prion-Like Propagation Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases by Isabelle Acquatella-Tran Van Ba, Thibaut Imberdis, Véronique Perrier

“…In animals, the most frequent prion diseases are scrapie in sheep and goat, bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle, and the emerging chronic wasting disease in wild and captive deer in North America. …”
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Nephrological problems in a child with Aicardi-Goutières syndrome by Małgorzata Piejak, Zuzanna Hus, Adam Bujanowicz, Piotr Skrzypczyk, Joanna Samotyjek, Beata Jurkiewicz, Hanna Szymanik-Grzelak, Mariusz I. Furmanek, Małgorzata Pańczyk-Tomaszewska

“…Aicardi-Goutières syndrome (AGS) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by excessive interferon-alpha production, leading to central nervous system damage, manifesting as subacute encephalopathy in infancy. Moreover, the phenotype includes frostbite-like skin lesions, hepatosplenomegaly, and endocrinopa­thies. …”
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Brain magnetic resonance imaging findings in Mitochondrial Neurogastrointestinal Encephalomyopathy (MNGIE): A case-based review by Maria Veatriki Christodoulou, MD, MSc, Nikoletta Anagnostou, MD, MSc, Anastasia K. Zikou, MD, PhD

“…Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy (MNGIE) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, manifesting with gastrointestinal dysmotility, cachexia, ptosis and peripheral neuropathy. …”
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A Case Report on Chikungunya Virus-Associated Encephalomyelitis by Harsh Khatri, Heli Shah, Dhara Roy, Kaushalendra Mani Tripathi

“…The neurological manifestations are uncommon and incorporate meningoencephalitis, myelitis, Guillain–Barre syndrome, cranial nerve palsies, myelopathy, and neuropathy; MRI abnormalities in patients with encephalopathy from India have been reported in the form of multiple punctuate white matter lesions that are more prominent on diffusion-weighted MRI than on T2 or T1. …”
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