4^th World Liver Congress

Neurology and Liver Disease

Neurological deficits related to liver illness may influence the CNS, the peripheral nervous framework, or both. The most serious neurological complication of acute liver failure and hepatic encephalopathy result in the advancement of the brain edema. Cognitive dysfunction is detected in Hepatitis C along with serious fatigue and mood disorders. Alterations in the brain metabolites show CNS change in these patients when recognized by magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The most widely recognized aspect of this relation is that hepatocellular failure may be complicated by the behavioral syndrome of hepatic encephalopathy, in which neurotransmission in the brain altered, profound fatigue in patients with chronic cholestasis is, may also be associated with altered neurotransmission in the brain.

·HCV/HIV Co-infection epidemiology

·Wilson Disease