Manganese in Women With Encephalopathy

Objective: Report manganese serum levels and mortality in encephalopathic patients. Patients and participants: Consecutive patients aged \> 18 years, with hepatic encephalopathy and informed consent signed by their families. Interventions: Patients' clinical characteristics as well as biochemical tests of renal function, hemoglobin, glucose and albumin levels were obtained as well as a blood sample to analyze manganese levels with a graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometer. Hypothesis: There is a difference in the manganese levels between male and female patients.