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ArticleBMJ case reports2020

Spastic paraparesis associated with advanced liver cirrhosis: a condition obscure in terms of treatment and prognosis.

Jaspreet Kaur, Gautam Jesrani, Monica Gupta, Sarabmeet Singh Lehl

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jaspreet KaurGeneral Medicine, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India.
Gautam JesraniGeneral Medicine, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India.
Monica GuptaGeneral Medicine, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India monicamanish2001@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3992-1013
Sarabmeet Singh LehlGeneral Medicine, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India.
Government Medical College and Hospital · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatic myelopathy or spastic paraparesis of liver disease is an insidious onset condition with pure motor spastic paraparesis without sensory, bladder or bowel involvement in patients with chronic liver disease, in which the neurological dysfunction cannot be explained by other causes. It is a rare, relentlessly progressive and mostly irreversible neurological complication resulting from portosystemic shunts occurring spontaneously, created surgically or due to 'functional shunting'. In some cases, no evidence of shunting is elicitable due to difficulty in locating the hidden collaterals. We report this rare case of a 33-year-old man with chronic liver disease presenting with spastic paraparesis after 11 months of resolution of an episode of hepatic encephalopathy.

Indexed as

Hepatic EncephalopathyLiver Cirrhosis, AlcoholicParaparesis, SpasticAdultAmmoniaDiagnosis, DifferentialDisease ProgressionHumansMaleNeurologic ExaminationPatient Care ManagementPrognosisSpinal Cord DiseasesTreatment OutcomeAmmoniaalcoholic liver diseasecirrhosisspinal cord

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PMID32513765
PMCPMC7282303
OpenAlexW3033480195

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