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A 17-year-old girl has been suffering from hepatic cirrhosis for 3 years. Lately her periods of excitation have been intermittent with depression, she does not sleep enough. Objectively, her condition is severe, the girl is sluggish, gives one-word responses, has tremor in her extremities, her skin is icteric, with single hemorrhagic rashes. Name the likely complication of her disease:

Answer options

  1. Sepsis
  2. Hepatic encephalopathy
  3. Bipolar affective disorder
  4. Kidney failure
  5. Reye syndrome
Correct answer

Hepatic encephalopathy

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