Russian consensus «Hyperammonemia in adults»


DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18565/therapy.2020.4.36-51

Approved as a document of Russian Scientific Medical Society of Internal Medicine (RSMSIM) and Scientific Society of Gastroenterologists of Russia (SSGR) November 20–21, 2019 by the XIV National Congress of Therapists and the XXII Congress of SSGR
Keywords: ammonia, hyperammonemia, hepatic encephalopathy, numbers test, L-Ornithine-L-Aspartate, alpha rifaximin, probiotics, prebiotics
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About the Autors

Leonid B. Lazebnik, MD, professor, professor of the Department of outpatient therapy of A.I. Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia, President of the Scientific Society of Gastroenterologists of Russia, Vice-President of the Russian Scientific Medical Society of Internal Medicine. Address: 127473, Moscow, 20/1 Delegatskaya Str. Tel.: +7 (985) 920-83-42. Email: leonid.borisl@gmail.com

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