A Study of MHE in Patients With Liver Diseases

Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a common complication and one of the most serious manifestations of cirrhosis and acute on chronic liver failure, not only increasing the risks of death, but also seriously affecting the lives of the patients and their caregivers. Minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE), the earliest stage of HE, despite its undiscernible clinical evidence, it is related with abnormalities of patients' daily cognition, emotion, muscular strength, driving ability, quality of life and socioeconomic status At present. However, MHE is not easy to diagnose in daily clinical work because of time-consuming psychometric tests, especially the inconvenience of application in weak inpatients. This study aims to analyze the diagnostic efficacy of neurophysiological tests and blood biomarkers on MHE, predict risk factors on the development of OHE and investigate the mortality of MHE in patients with cirrhosis and acute on chronic liver failure.