Does cognitive Impairment predict The Occurrence Of Hepatic Encephalopathy After Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt?
Psychometric evaluation before TIPS is able to identify most of the patients who will develop HE after a TIPS and can be used to select patients in order to have the lowest incidence of this important complication.
Using a broad, sensitive assay with prospectively collected specimens of a Central European population we could not detect HPV-DNA in any of the cases. Our results suggest that it is unlikely that HPV infections play a major role in the development of urothelial bladder cancer.