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A Head CT is Unnecessary in the Initial Evaluation of A Cirrhotic Patient with Recurrent Hepatic Encephalopathy
Sumit Kumar*, Ronak Modi**, Bhavik M. Bhandari**, David A. Sass*, Kenneth D. Rothstein***,
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* Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Thomas Jefferson University, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
** Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hahnemann University Hospital, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
*** Division of Gastroenterology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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scan of the head should be performed to exclude any structural abnormalities of the brain&#46; However due to the nature of chronic liver disease&#44; patients with cirrhosis often present with recurrent episodes of HE&#46; Historically&#44; it has been observed that clinicians commonly request imaging of the brain &#40;head CT&#41; on subsequent episodes of HE without any evidence supporting this clinical practice&#46;</p><p id="p0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The yield of a head CT in determining the etiology of altered mental status in the general population is low in the absence of preceding history of trauma or when there is a lack of focal neurological signs on examination&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0025"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> However&#44; the perceived notion of auto anticoagulation due to an elevated international normalized ratio &#40;INR&#41; 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observational&#44; single-center study conducted at a tertiary care hospital &#40;Hahnemann University Hospital&#44; Philadelphia&#44; Pennsylvania&#41;&#46; Data over a three-year period &#40;2007-2010&#41; was analyzed&#44; from inpatient medical records of patients with a known history of cirrhosis that presented to the emergency department with HE or had an episode of HE while an inpatient&#46; All patients had a head CT performed as part of their initial evaluation for altered sensorium&#46; The study protocol was approved by our institutional review board&#44; which waived informed consent for this retrospective study&#46;</p><p id="p0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Inclusion criteria were age older than 18 years and an established diagnosis of liver cirrhosis&#46; Patients were excluded from the study if this was their first episode of HE&#44; if they had a previous history of stroke&#44; intracranial spaceoccupying lesion or had a known neurological illness such as dementia or parkinsonism&#46;</p><p id="p0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The diagnosis of HE was made if the patient had altered mental status or compatible neuropsychological signs &#40;i&#46;e&#46;&#44; somnolence&#44; confusion&#44; focal neurological deficit&#44; asterixis or fetor hepaticus&#41;&#46; CT scan of the entire head was performed at 4-mm intervals on a stat protocol using GE equipment&#46; All CT scans were performed without contrast and sedation&#44; and were reviewed by a radiologist&#46;</p><p id="p0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Data for each patient were recorded for demographic characteristics&#44; etiology of cirrhosis&#44; history of trauma&#44; antiplatelet&#47;anticoagulation therapy&#44; neurological examination findings&#44; biochemical data &#40;serum levels of sodium&#44; creatinine&#44; albumin&#44; total bilirubin&#44; ammonia&#44; platelets and INR&#41; and CT brain findings&#46;</p><p id="p0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Data were recorded in an electronic database&#46; Statistical analysis was performed using the SAS system&#44; version 9&#46;1&#46; Categorical data was analyzed by &#967;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0010"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> test and Fisher&#8217;s exact test&#46; A p value of &#60; 0&#46;05 was considered statistically significant&#46;</p></span><span id="s0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0025">Results</span><p id="p0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We identified 147 episodes of HE in 67 patients who met the inclusion criteria&#46; The baseline patient characteristics are displayed in <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#t0005">table 1</a>&#46; The causes for encephalopathy included infection&#44; gastrointestinal bleeding&#44; medication noncompliance&#44; dehydration&#44; renal failure&#44; constipation&#44; medications&#44; transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt&#44; and portal vein thrombosis&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="t0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="p0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The overall prevalence of intracranial findings on head CT in our patient population was 6 in 147 episodes &#40;4&#37;&#41;&#46; Imaging of the brain was normal in the remaining 141 head CT performed&#46; In the 147 episodes of HE&#44; there were 10 episodes of HE where patients had focal neurological signs on clinical examination&#46;</p><p id="p0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The six episodes of HE associated with positive head CT findings were the primary focus because analysis of their presentation could help triage patients who would require a more thorough workup &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#t0010">Table 2</a>&#41;&#46; Out of the six abnormal head CT scans&#44; five patients had various forms of intracranial bleeding while one patient was reported as having diffuse cerebral edema with midline shift&#46; Two out of the six patients presented with a recent history of trauma and had focal findings on neurological examination&#46; Two other patients presented with focal neurological findings but no documented history of trauma&#46; The fifth patient with an abnormal head CT scan had a subdural hemorrhage with a recent history of trauma but had a normal neurological exam&#46; The sixth patient was diagnosed with intracranial hemorrhage but did not have a history of trauma nor presence of focal neurological findings on physical examination&#46; Overall&#44; 1 of 142 &#40;0&#46;7&#37;&#41; episodes of HE had acute intracranial findings on neuroimaging without the presence of trauma or a focal neurological finding on examination&#46; None of these patients were on anti-platelet or anticoagulant agents&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="t0010"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="p0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The mean levels of laboratory values from patients with HE found to have abnormal head CT&#44; were compared to those with normal head CT to identify any clinical differences or trends in their laboratory workups &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#t0015">Table 3</a>&#41;&#46; None of these variables had a statistically significant impact on CT findings &#40;p &#62; 0&#46;05&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="t0015"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="s0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0030">Discussion</span><p id="p0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The diagnosis of HE is primarily made clinically with the adjunct of laboratory and radiologic testing to exclude infectious and metabolic causes&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> Despite the scarcity of evidence&#44; 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Of the 147 head CT scans studied&#44; only 6 &#40;4&#37;&#41; had positive intracranial findings&#46; These scans were from six different patients&#46; Five out of these six patients had either a history of preceding head trauma or had focal neurological findings on clinical examination&#46; Imaging of the head was normal in the remaining 141 CTs performed&#46; These findings indicate that neuroimaging of the brain has a very low yield in determining the cause of HE and should be reserved for patients who have either a history of trauma or a focal neurological deficit on clinical examination&#46; In cases where no known precipitator is found after initial evaluation or there is a lack of clinical improvement after medical therapy&#44; neuroimaging should be used for further evaluation &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#f0005">Figure 1</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="f0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="p0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Traditionally deranged hemostatic indices or extreme alteration in mental status have been used as a justification by clinicians to perform a head CT in a patient with chronic liver disease&#46; However&#44; we did not find any significant association between these hematological parameters&#44; nor the grade of encephalopathy or MELD scores in patients who had positive finding on CT of the brain&#46;</p><p id="p0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">When a patient with cirrhosis presents with altered mental status and provides a history of preceding trauma&#44; it is obligatory to obtain imaging of the head to rule out intracranial hemorrhage&#46; The presentation of HE with focal neurological signs is well documented in the literature&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a> Whether the presence of focal neurological signs is a strong enough indication to perform imaging of the head remains a matter of debate&#46; Rahimi&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;</span> evaluated 223 patients with cirrhosis and altered mental status that underwent head CT scanning on admission to the hospital&#46; HE was the cause of altered mental status in 47&#37; of patients&#46; They found that no patient with HE had focal neurologic findings nor a focal abnormality on head CT&#46; Moreover&#44; all of the patients who had abnormal brain imaging&#44; also had coexistent focal neurologic findings on presentation&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> Contrarily&#44; Cadranel&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;</span> observed 8 patients with HE who had a focal neurological deficit on clinical evaluation&#44; but had normal head CT&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a></p><p id="p0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The results of our study are reinforced by a recent study&#46; Donovan&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">13</span></a> demonstrated that in patients with cirrhosis &#40;n &#61; 462&#41; presenting with altered mental status&#44; those with a history of trauma&#44; intracranial hemorrhage or positive focal neurological signs on clinical examination had a higher likelihood of intracranial hemorrhage on head CT&#46; The yield of CT scan for altered mental status in the absence of the above factors was extremely low &#40;0&#46;3&#37;&#41;&#46; Our study was different&#44; as we looked at patients with a known history of HE who presented with recurrent episodes of HE&#46; Moreover our study focused not only on intracranial hemorrhage but a broader range of intracranial findings on head CT&#46;</p><p id="p0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Our study is not without limitations&#46; First&#44; it was conducted on a preselected&#44; nonrandomized cohort at a single center&#46; Secondarily&#44; one of the six patients with intracranial hemorrhage on neuroimaging did not have a history of trauma nor a focal neurological deficit on examination&#46; Although this patient represents only 0&#46;6&#37; of the study population&#44; missing his diagnosis would have been catastrophic&#46; We therefore recommend a prospective&#44; multicenter&#44; randomized controlled study to assess the utility of neuroimaging to find correlating significant findings as a cause for HE&#46;</p><p id="p0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In conclusion&#44; the yield of a head CT scan in determining the etiology of change in mental status is extremely low in patients with liver cirrhosis who present with recurrent HE&#46; The diagnostic evaluation to determine the precipitating cause of HE should include a thorough history&#44; detailed neurological examination&#44; and supportive laboratory test to evaluate for infections&#44; gastrointestinal bleeding&#44; metabolic disturbances and drug intoxication&#46; We recommend that a head CT scan should be performed in the initial evaluation of patients presenting with recurrent HE&#44; only when there is history of trauma or evidence of focal neurological findings on clinical exam&#46; This approach would be cost-effective&#44; time saving&#44; and prevent unnecessary exposure to radiation&#46;</p></span><span id="s0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0035">Abbreviations</span><p id="p0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="l0005"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0005"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">CT&#58;</span> computed tomography&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0010"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">HE&#58;</span> hepatic encephalopathy&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0015"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">INR&#58;</span> international normalized ratio&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="u0020"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">&#8226;</span><p id="p0125" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">MELD&#58;</span> model for end stage liver disease&#46;</p></li></ul></p></span><span id="s0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0040">Grant Support</span><p id="p0130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">None&#46;</p></span><span id="s0035" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0045">Disclosures</span><p id="p0135" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">None of the authors have any conflicts of interest to disclose</p></span></span>"
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