Hepatic encephalopathy - a complex neurologic and the alienations, arising at patients with chronic diseases of a liver.

Etiology, pathogenesis. As the reason of an encephalopathy the toxic nitric bonds getting owing to disturbance of function of a liver in a blood and a brain serve. Morphological measurements in a brain are similar to what are found out at a dystrophia.

Signs, current. Progressing a dementia and subcortical disturbances (a tremor, a rigidity, a bradykinesia). Cerebellar signs can join it. In case of disturbance of a diet (reception of lots of animal protein) there is a sharp aggravation of alienations, " an incidental stupor ", proceeding some days and sometimes passing in a hepatic coma.