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Hepatic Encephalopathy Gastrointestinal System • Hepatic encephalopathy is neuropsychiatric dysfunction from liver failure — ammonia accumulation. Grades I-IV (covert → coma). Precipitants: GI bleed, infection, constipation, medications, AKI. Liver Cirrhosis Gastrointestinal System • Cirrhosis is end-stage fibrosis from chronic liver injury (alcohol, NAFLD/NASH, viral hepatitis). Complications: varices, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy, hepatorenal syndrome, hepatocellular carcinoma.