Relationship between tumor necrosis factor‐alpha and ammonia in patients with hepatic encephalopathy due to chronic liver failure

Abstract

The results of this study demonstrate a significant relationship between TNF and ammonia in patients with chronic liver failure and HE, and so strengthen the suggestion that TNF could be strongly involved in the pathogenesis of HE in these patients. Hence, we suggest a new theory in the pathogenesis of HE, the "TNF theory".

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