QuickStroop for screening for minimal hepatic encephalopathy in patients with cirrhosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background & aims

QuickStroop, a shortened version of the Stroop EncephalApp, has recently been proposed for screening for minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) in patients with cirrhosis in the USA. At present, there are no data on its clinical utility for MHE screening in patients in Europe, and only limited data are available regarding its comparison to the Animal Naming Test (ANT).

Methods

In total, 242 patients with cirrhosis without signs of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) ≥ grade 1 and no history of overt HE were included as the development cohort. Another independent cohort comprising 104 patients with cirrhosis from a different center served as a validation set. MHE was defined using the psychometric hepatic encephalopathy score (PHES) (PHES-MHE). All patients were teste

SUBMITTER: Labenz C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11959648 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature