PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | hepatic encephalopathy |
| Symptom | C0232766|asterixis |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 19892136 | asterixis was described in patients with hepatic encephalopathy by adams and foley in 1949 and found to result from electrically silent pauses in muscle activity, which led to the concept of negative myoclonus in the 1980s. |
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