Sociodemographic characteristics, complications requiring hospital admission and causes of in-hospital death in patients with liver cirrhosis admitted at a district hospital in Ghana.
Amoako DuahAdwoa Agyei-NkansahFoster Osei-PokuFrancisca DuahBright Peprah AddoPublished in: PloS one (2021)
In-hospital mortality in cirrhotic patients was high with the leading cause of death being hepatic encephalopathy. Timely diagnosis and adequate management of hepatic encephalopathy are necessary to prevent death from liver cirrhosis.