Acute encephalopathy due to thiamine deficiency with hyperammonemia in a chronic hemodialysis patient: A case report

Japanese Journal of Nephrology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 393-397

  Ookawara, Susumu ^a   Suzuki, Masayuki ^b   Saitou, Mikio ^c  

^a Nishikawa Town Hospital   (Japan)

^b Yamagata Prefectural Central Hospital   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Encephalopathy; Hemodialysis; Hyper ammonemia; Intradialytic parenteral nutrition; Thiamine deficiency

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; FURSULTIAMINE; GLUCOSE; LACTIC ACID; SULTAMICILLIN; THIAMINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALNUTRITION; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; SPEECH DISORDER; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACIDOSIS, LACTIC; ACIDOSIS, RESPIRATORY; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERAMMONEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; RENAL DIALYSIS; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 0038797080     PISSN: 03852385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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