Tianjin Medical Journal ›› 2018, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (7): 758-760.doi: 10.11958/20171523

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Chronic subdural hematoma complicated with hepatic encephalopathy: a case report

WEI Ying-sheng, JIA Ying, AN Shuo, TIAN Ye, SUN Jian, JIANG Rong-cai △   

  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300070, China △Corresponding Author E-mail:jiang116216@163.com
  • Received:2017-12-28 Revised:2018-04-14 Published:2018-07-15 Online:2018-07-15

Abstract: This article report a case of patient with chronic subdural hematoma. After receiving a surgery, the patient presented mental symptoms such as abnormal behaviors and personality changes. The patient was diagnosed as hepatic encephalopathy and secondary epilepsy according to his medical history, laboratory tests, head CT / MRI and electroencephalogram. The secondary epilepsy was diagnosed by convulsion. After receiving corresponding therapy, these symptom disappeared.

Key words: hematoma, subdural, chronic, hepatic encephalopathy, epilepsy