Cerebral Hemodynamics and Cognitive Function in Cirrhotic Patients with Hepatic Encephalopathy

Table 3

Patient demographics and blood analysis before treatment between groups A and B.

Variables	Group A	Group B	value
Cases	10	11	—	—
Age (year)			−0.566	0.578
Sex (M/F)	6/4	6/5	0.064	0.801
Educational years			−0.283	0.780
Etiology			2.582	0.630
B viral hepatitis cirrhosis	5	6
C viral hepatitis cirrhosis	1	0
Primary biliary cirrhosis	2	1
Autoimmune hepatitis cirrhosis	0	0
Schistosomiasis cirrhosis	0	1
Cryptogenic cirrhosis	2	3
Child-Pugh grading			0.565	0.754
Grade A	2	2
Grade B	5	4
Grade C	3	5
Child-Pugh scores			−0.179	0.860
Ammonia (μmol/L)			0.098	0.923
Cr (μmol/L)			0.605	0.552
TBil (μmol/L)			−0.912	0.373
ALB (g/L)			0.824	0.420
PT (sec)			0.278	0.784
NCT-A (sec)			−0.496	0.626
DST (scores)			0.670	0.511

Table 3 indicates comparison of age, sex, educational years, etiology, Child-Pugh grading, Child-Pugh scores, ammonia, Cr, TBil, ALB, PT, NCT-A, and DST between groups A and B before treatment. Group A is the control group; group B is the treated group. Continuous data were compared using -test and categorical data were compared by a chi-square test. means significant differences in an index between two groups.