Can computerized brain training games be used to identify early cognitive impairment in cirrhosis?
Short, brain-training games administered on an iPad can be used as psychometric tests to detect subtle cognitive impairments in patients with cirrhosis without overt encephalopathy that could not be detected by the NCT-A or the ICT.
Exogenous rhGH treatment started 7 days prior to surgery and continued until day 4 postoperatively accelerates the strength development of the experimental colonic anastomoses in dwarf rats indicating a potent role of growth hormone in colonic healing. However, GH is not essential in the healing process, since anastomotic healing in GH-deficient dwarf rats is like rats with normal pituitary function.