L-Carnitine and Reduced PSE Index

• Additional L-Carnitine Reduced the Risk of Hospitalization in Patients with Overt Hepatic Encephalopathy on Rifaximin.

  • 2021-06-28
  • RCT · n = 42
  • Digestive diseases (Basel, Switzerland) 40(3)
  • • Kousuke Kubota
    • Haruki Uojima
    • Xue Shao
    • Shuichiro Iwasaki
    • Hisashi Hidaka
    • Naohisa Wada
    • Takahide Nakazawa
    • Akitaka Shibuya
    • Makoto Kako
    • Wasaburo Koizumi

  • PubMed: 34348263
  • DOI: 10.1159/000518067

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced PSE Index

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Although there was not a significant reduction in the PSE index in group A compared to that in group B (p = 0.202)

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  1,500 mg/day