Suggest Treatment For Short Term Memory Loss While Treating Liver Failure

Question:
Situation: friend has terrible short term memory issues due to liver failure

She has been hospitalized many times, with the worst being 5 years ago for liver failure where she clinically died and was revived. She woke up with no short term memory.
So assuming she has had every test in the world then and since then.


She was a stripper when younger and for 15 years drank heavily in that environment. 5 years later she was told she had her best liver function tests ever. I asked her to check on Hepatitis. She asked her Drs if she had it and apparently was told no.

She continues to binge drink when we go out, but infrequently. She is very thin at 5'3 and about 112 pounds, but when I met her 4 years ago she was under 100.

Memory loss has not gotten much, if any better since I have known her. It is like she is meeting me for the first time and it is VERY frustrating for both of us.

I have read alot on this due to her and my guessed diagnosis is Hepatic Encephalopathy, but she tells me she does not know or care to know. She is legally disabled and cannot drive due to her illness. My friend is like the character Drew Barrymore played in the movie 50 first Dates.


Hope this helps and thank you, XXXXXXX