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!colspan=3|PRECIPITATING FACTORS FOR ENCEPHALOPATHY
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!style="background: #4479BA; text-align: center;" |Underlying Disease
!style="background: #4479BA; text-align: center;" |Examples
!style="background: #4479BA; text-align: center;" |Precipitating Factors
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|style="padding:5px5px;background:#DCDCDC;"|LIVER DISEASES
|Cirrhosis, Acute Liver Failure, Budd Chiari Syndrome, Hepatoma
|Dehydration, Infection, Constipation, GI Bleeding, Electrolyte Imbalance
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|style="padding:5px5px;background:#DCDCDC;"|RENAL DISEASES
|Renal Failure, Hyponatremia
|Electrolyte Imbalance, Uremia, Dialysis, Uncontrolled HTN, Thiamine Deficiency
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|style="padding:5px5px;background:#DCDCDC;"|DIABETES
|DKA
|Chronic hyperglycemia, Stress, Trauma, Infection, SGLT-2 inhibitors, Thiazide Diuretics, Acute pancreatitis
|-
|style="padding:5px5px;background:#DCDCDC;"|STROKE, EPILEPSY
|Ischemic stroke, Status Epilepticus
|Acute seizure, Acute stroke
|}


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Revision as of 11:18, 9 July 2020

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] ; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Aditya Govindavarjhulla, M.B.B.S. [2]

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Elderly patients and patients with multisystem disease are at risk for the development of encephalopathy.

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Most common cause of encephalopathy is metabolic cause. In this condition there will be increase in toxic substance to brain keeping the person at high risk of encephalopathy.

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PRECIPITATING FACTORS FOR ENCEPHALOPATHY
Underlying Disease Examples Precipitating Factors
LIVER DISEASES Cirrhosis, Acute Liver Failure, Budd Chiari Syndrome, Hepatoma Dehydration, Infection, Constipation, GI Bleeding, Electrolyte Imbalance
RENAL DISEASES Renal Failure, Hyponatremia Electrolyte Imbalance, Uremia, Dialysis, Uncontrolled HTN, Thiamine Deficiency
DIABETES DKA Chronic hyperglycemia, Stress, Trauma, Infection, SGLT-2 inhibitors, Thiazide Diuretics, Acute pancreatitis
STROKE, EPILEPSY Ischemic stroke, Status Epilepticus Acute seizure, Acute stroke

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