The animal naming test: An easy tool for the assessment of hepatic encephalopathy.
Campagna F, Montagnese S, Ridola L, Senzolo M, Schiff S, De Rui M, Pasquale C, Nardelli S, Pentassuglio I, Merkel C, Angeli P, Riggio O, Amodio P. Hepatology. 2017 Screening for hepatic encephalopathy (HE) that does not cause obvious disorientation or asterixis (minimal HE [MHE]/grade 1 HE) is important. We examined if the animal naming test (ANT1 ) (maximum number of animals listed […]
Neuropsychiatric performance in patients with cirrhosis: Who is “normal”?
Montagnese S, De Rui M, Angeli P, Amodio P. Journal of Hepatology 2017 In patients with cirrhosis a normal neuropsychiatric performance has been traditionally defined by the absence of any degree of hepatic encephalopathy and/or the absence of psychometric or neurophysiological abnormalities, compared with data from the healthy population. As the understanding and management of end-stage liver disease continues to change, it is our impression […]
Identifying pathways modulating sleep duration: from genomics to transcriptomics
Allebrandt K, Teder-Laving M, Cusumano P, Frishman G, Levandovski R, Ruepp A, Hidalgo M, Costa R, Metspalu A, Roenneberg T, de Pittà C. Scientific Reports Recognizing that insights into the modulation of sleep duration can emerge by exploring the functional relationships among genes, we used this strategy to explore the genome-wide association results for […]
Cognitive reserve is a resilience factor for cognitive dysfunction in hepatic encephalopathy
Amodio P, Montagnese S, Spinelli G, Schiff S, Mapelli D. Metababolic Brain Disease 2017 Cognitive Reserve (CR) modulates symptoms of brain disease. The aim of this study was: to evaluate the effect of CR on cognition in cirrhosis and on the mismatch between cognitive and neurophysiologic assessment of hepatic encephalopathy (HE). Eighty-two outpatient patients with cirrhosis without overt HE were studied [73% […]
An educational tool for the prophylaxis of hepatic encephalopathy.
Garrido M, Turco M, Formentin C, Corrias M, De Rui M, Montagnese S, Amodio P. BMJ Open Gastroenterology 2017 BACKGROUND: Providing structured information for the understanding of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) might be relevant to the prevention and management of the syndrome. The aim of our study was to design a brief, structured educational intervention and […]