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CASE REPORT
Hepatic myelopathy: an unusual neurological complication of chronic liver disease presenting as quadriparesis
  1. Prakash Kori,
  2. Ritesh Sahu,
  3. Anupam Jaiswal,
  4. Rakesh Shukla
  1. Department of Neurology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
  1. Correspondence to Professor Rakesh Shukla, rakeshshukla_rakesh{at}rediffmail.com

Summary

Hepatic myelopathy is a rare neurological complication of chronic liver disease, which is usually seen in adults, presenting as pure motor spastic paraparesis. It is almost always associated with portosystemic shunts and hepatic decompensation. We report a rare case of a young adult man presenting as rapidly progressive spastic quadriparesis because of hepatic myelopathy and associated spontaneous splenorenal shunt and early hepatic decompensation.

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