40 year old patient with hepatic encephalopathy


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 40 year old male patient , resident of ongole came to causality with chief complaints of :

Generalised weakness , excessive sleepiness and fever since 2 days.

History of presenting illness: 

Patient was apparently asymptomatic 10 years back . 

Then he started drinking alcohol 90 ml everyday and smoking 1 pack / day

He was admitted to deaddiction centre in our hospital 5 years back for 40 days and then got discharged. He refrained from alcohol for 5-6 months but then started drinking again.

At present he has been drinking 540-720 ml/ day and 2 pack of cigarettes everyday 

He came to get admit in deaddiction centre on March 3rd.

2 days back he developed generalised weakness and excessive sleeping, fever.Fever is of low grade , intermittent not associated with chills and rigors.

He had 6-8 episode of seizures in past 10 years inspite of being on medication.

Not a known case of DM, HTN ,CAD ,TB , asthma .

Personal history:

Appetite- Decreased 

Diet - Mixed 

Bladder movements- yellow coloured urine 

Bowel - pale coloured stools 

Sleep - increased 

Addictions - Alcohol and smoking since 10 years 

Family history: 

Insignificant 

General examination:

Patient is drowsy but arousable.

Icterus - Present 

Cyanosis- absent

Clubbing- absent 

Lymphadenopathy- absent

Edema- absent


Vitals : temp - febrile 

            Pulse - 82bpm

            BP - 120/80

            RR - 18cpm

SYSTEMIC EXAMINATION: 

Cvs : s1 s2 +

Rs : BAE +

P/A: soft , non tender 

Hepatomegaly +

Flapping Tremors.  

INVESTIGATION: 

CBP - 

HB - 11.4

TLC - 7300

platelet count- 1.5 lakh

Smear - Normocytic normochromic

BGT : A + ( positive) 

APTT :36 sec

PT : 17 sec

INR: 1.2 sec

RBS : 101 mg/dl


LFT :

Total bilirubin : 6.77

Direct bilirubin: 2.98

SGOT: 157

SGPT: 25

ALP : 507

ALBUMIN 3.1

TOTAL PROTEIN : 6.6


RFT : 

Urea -13

creatinine- 0.6

Uric acid - 3.9

calcium- 10.2

Phosphorus- 4.0

potassium - 3.9

Sodium -136

chloride-98



HbsAg - Negative


USG ABDOMEN  ( 7/3/22) : 

Grade 3 fatty liver with mild hepatomegaly with mild caudate lobe hypertrophy


Mild splenomegaly with early parenchymal licer disease

ECG: 

PROVISIONAL DIAGNOSIS: 

Decompensated liver disease with alcohol dependence syndrome ( ? Cirrhosis with portal hypertension )

TREATMENT:

 Inj. Pantop 40 mg iv /od

Inj thiamine 1 amp il

Inj zofer 4 mg iv / ns 

Syrup lactulose 10 ml / po / bd

Tab rifaximin 540 mg / po/ bd

Soap water enema stat

Tab udiliv 300 mg / po / bd

Tab aldactone 25 mg /po /bd

Tab lasix 20 mg /po/ bd 

Tab benxl /po/od

Mcotex gums 

Tab levittacetam 500 mg /po/bd

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