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©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email Methods to assess treatment responses in different groups of patients with hepatic encephalopathy Study group Treatment endpoint Assessment of treatment response Natural history Problems Overt HE Clinical improvement Clinical grading, EEG, SEP Well documented High mortality, precipitating factors Chronic HE Clinical improvement Clinical grading, PSE score Well documented Post-recovery from hepatic coma Recurrence PSE score, MDF (EEG) Depends upon various factors Compliance Patients with portacaval shunts (TIPS or surgical) Prevention of HE PSE score, psychometry, MDF (EEG) Well documented Subclinical HE Electrophysiologic or psychometric parameters Psychometry, MDF (EEG) P300 PHES Unknown Clinical importance of improvement of certain tests SEP: somatosensory evoked potentials; PSE: portal-systemic encephalopathy score according to Conn; MDF: mean dominant frequency; P300: event-related acoustic evoked responses; PHES: psychometric hepatic encephalopathy score.