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ArticleScientific reports2022

Minimal hepatic encephalopathy is associated to alterations in eye movements.

Franc Casanova-Ferrer, Cecilia E García-Cena, Juan-Jose Gallego, Alessandra Fiorillo, Amparo Urios, Alberto Calvo-Córdoba, Maria-Pilar Ballester, María Pilar Ríos, Lucía Durbán, Marta R Hidalgo and 3 more

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13 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Franc Casanova-Ferrer *Fundación de Investigación Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia-INCLIVA, 46010, Valencia, Spain.
Cecilia E García-Cena *Centre for Automation and Robotics, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Juan-Jose GallegoFundación de Investigación Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia-INCLIVA, 46010, Valencia, Spain.
Alessandra FiorilloFundación de Investigación Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia-INCLIVA, 46010, Valencia, Spain.
Amparo UriosFundación de Investigación Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia-INCLIVA, 46010, Valencia, Spain.
Alberto Calvo-CórdobaCentre for Automation and Robotics, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Maria-Pilar BallesterFundación de Investigación Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia-INCLIVA, 46010, Valencia, Spain.
María Pilar RíosServicio de Medicina Digestiva, Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, 46015, Valencia, Spain.
Lucía DurbánServicio de Medicina Digestiva, Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, 46015, Valencia, Spain.
Marta R HidalgoBioinformatics and Biostatistics Unit, Centro Investigación Príncipe Felipe, 46012, Valencia, Spain.
Francisco GarcíaBioinformatics and Biostatistics Unit, Centro Investigación Príncipe Felipe, 46012, Valencia, Spain.
Vicente FelipoLaboratory of Neurobiology, Centro Investigación Príncipe Felipe, 46012, Valencia, Spain.
Carmina MontoliuFundación de Investigación Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia-INCLIVA, 46010, Valencia, Spain. carmina.montoliu@uv.es.
Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia · ESCentro de Investigacion Principe Felipe · ESHospital Arnau de Vilanova · ESCentre for Automation and Robotics · ESUniversidad Politécnica de Madrid · ESUniversitat de València · ES

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Abstract

Minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) is diagnosed using PHES battery, but other tests are more sensitive, and a simple tool for early MHE detection is required. Assessment of saccadic eye movements is useful for early detection of cognitive alterations in different pathologies. We characterized the alterations in saccadic eye movements in MHE patients, its relationship with cognitive alterations and its utility for MHE diagnosis. One-hundred and eighteen cirrhotic patients (86 without and 32 with MHE) and 35 controls performed PHES and Stroop test and an eye movements test battery by OSCANN system: visual saccades, antisaccades, memory-guided saccades, fixation test and smooth pursuit. We analyzed 177 parameters of eye movements, assessed their diagnostic capacity for MHE, and correlated with cognitive alterations. MHE patients showed alterations in 56 of the 177 variables of eye movements compared to NMHE patients. MHE patients showed longer latencies and worse performance in most eye movements tests, which correlated with mental processing speed and attention impairments. The best correlations found were for antisaccades and memory-guided saccades, and some parameters in these tests could be useful for discriminating MHE and NMHE patients. Eye movements analysis could be a new, rapid, reliable, objective, and reproducible tool for early diagnose MHE.

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Hepatic EncephalopathyCase-Control StudiesEye MovementsHumansLiver CirrhosisPsychometrics

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