ALLMedicine™ Ammonia Level Center

Aug 25th, 2022 - Serum ammonia testing in hepatic encephalopathy (HE) has been long debated in the field of hepatology. Although central the pathophysiology of HE, serum ammonia testing is fraught with complexities that can lead to challenges in lab collection and...

Jul 30th, 2022 - Targeted puncture of an appropriate portal venous branch during transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) procedure may reduce the risk of postprocedural overt hepatic encephalopathy (HE). This study aimed to describe blood distribution...

Jul 21st, 2022 - A man in his 70s presented with impaired consciousness due to hyperammonaemia while investigating multiple tumours in his brain, chest, spine and right adrenal gland. He did not have any disorders causing hyperammonaemia, such as liver dysfunction...

Jul 13th, 2022 - Laboratory Studies A serum glucose or fingerstick glucose test is indicated. Patients with liver disease due to alcoholism have reduced glycogen stores, and ethanol impairs gluconeogenesis. As a consequence, these patients are susceptible to hypog...

Jul 2nd, 2022 - AbstractThe aim of this study was to explore the effect of lamotrigine (LTG) on blood ammonia level in patients with epilepsy and identify risk factors affecting blood ammonia level. This study included 91 epilepsy patients who were treated with L...

Feb 18th, 2022 - Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) corresponds to the neurological or the neuropsychological symptoms caused by an acute or chronic liver disease and/or porto-systemic shunt. Many patients present neurological symptoms even if their liver disease is stab...

Sep 22nd, 2021 - This study is for patients with cirrhosis and hepatic encephalopathy who are in the hospital. This means they have a high ammonia level which is affecting their brain function. All patients will receive the standard of (regular) care. Each will ha...

Jan 6th, 2021 - Convulsive disorders are among the most frequently occurring neurologic conditions in children. Idiopathic seizures are the most common (67.6%) type of seizure seen in the 0-15 year age group. The highest incidence is in the first year of life. In...

Feb 26th, 2020 - Study procedures: A. Study period: 24 months; treatment period: 12 months. B. Patients will receive Carglumic Acid (Carbaglu®) 50 mg/kg/day in addition to standard therapy (protein restricted diet, L-carnitine, metronidazole and vitamin B12). C. P...

Jul 17th, 2019 - Subject will be randomize in two groups. Group A will receive drug packets containing 2.5 gm sodium benzoate and 5 gm powdered table sugar for 5days.Since the dosage of Sodium Benzoate is Sta t250mg/Kg and then 250mg/Kg in next 24 hours, each pati...

May 29th, 2020 - In April 2020, the Pediatric Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Workgroup published their recommendations for the management of hyperammonemia in pediatric patients receiving continuous kidney replacement therapy.[1] Medical Therapy for Hyperamm...

May 1st, 2019 - CASE Rash, fever, extreme lethargy; multiple hospital visits Ms. L, age 21, a single woman with a history of major depressive disorder (MDD), is directly admitted from an outside community hospital to our tertiary care academic hospital with acute.

Oct 24th, 2018 - We spoke with Dr. Shen, instructor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the recipient of the AGA Research Foundation’s 2016 Microbiome Junior Investigator Award, to learn about his passion for gut microbiome research.

Sep 12th, 2016 - The diagnosis Histologic analysis was consistent with a fibrolamellar-hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The patient developed decerebrate posturing without cerebral edema on CT of the head.

Feb 23rd, 2015 - CASE Seizures, amnesia Ms. A, age 13, who has a history of seizures, presents to the emergency department (ED) with sudden onset of memory loss.