Hepatic encephalopathy, minimal (Q89352)

Minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) is a known part of hepatic neurophysiological symptoms. The symptom of MHE include mild confusion, inappropriate behavior and flapping tremor. Liver dysfunction patients with MHE, have health problems related to quality of life and associated with development overt hepatic encephalopathy. In some clinical guideline, MHE is recognized and diagnosed by neurophysiological test. Major assessment is the abnormality of more than two test items in the number connection test A/B, DST, and block design test indicates MHE.