An elderly woman presented with coma secondary to acute-on-chronic liver failure and was found to have severe hyperammonaemia. MR scan of brain showed extensive bilateral and symmetric cortical and thalamic fluid-attenuated inversion recovery hyperintense signals and diffusion restriction. How should clinicians address the prognosis of such cases? Postmortem findings from this case provide new insights in pathophysiology.
Keywords: COMA.
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