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DefinitionHepatic encephalopathy is a reversible neurologic syndrome that results from advanced liver dysfunction or portosystemic shunting. It leads to disturbances in cognition, behavior, and motor function due to the brain’s exposure to gut-derived toxins that the liver fails to detoxify.EtiologyThis condition develops either in the setting of acute fulminant hepatitis or progressively during chronic liver disease, such as cirrhosis and portal hypertension. Portosystemic...

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Delayed Posthypoxic Leukoencephalopathy in a Catatonic-Appearing Patient: A Case Report.

Meredith Bentley¹, Jordan Gaal¹, Janice Hostetter¹

¹Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Huntington, West Virginia, USA.

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Delayed posthypoxic leukoencephalopathy (DPHL) is a rare condition mimicking other neurological disorders. This case highlights DPHL

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Delayed posthypoxic leukoencephalopathy (DPHL) is a rare neurological disorder.

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It can be misdiagnosed due to overlapping symptoms with conditions like catatonia.

Causes include anoxia from carbon monoxide poisoning, drug overdose, or cardiac arrest.