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US 2003/0195255 A1Published application
Method for treating hepatic encephalopathies
OwnerMarshall L. Summarinventor
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Abstract
A method for using phenyl butyrate compounds, their salts, derivatives and metabolites to treat chronic hepatic encephalopathies. Treatment according to the invention can arrest and even reverse the loss of mental function associated with chronic hepatic encephalopathies.
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A method of treating hepatic encephalopathy, comprising administering to a person exhibiting hepatic encephalopathy a therapeutically effective amount of at least one phenyl butyrate compound or a salt, derivative or metabolite of phenyl butyrate in a pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle.
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