Acute pulmonary edema caused by hypoglycemia due to insulin overdose

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1056-1059

  Uchida, Daigaku ^a   Ohigashi, Sawako ^a   Hikita, Satosi ^a   Kitamura, Nobuya ^a   Motoyoshi, Mitsutaka ^b   Tatsuno, Ichiro ^c  

^a KIMITSU CHUO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Memorial Hospital of Kazusa   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Catecholamine; Hypoglycemia; Hypoglycemic coma; Insulin; Neurogenic pulmonary edema; Pulmonary edema

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; INSULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG OVERDOSE; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ENDOCRINOLOGY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC COMA; HYPOXIA; INFECTION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG INFILTRATE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; OVERDOSE; PULMONARY EDEMA; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 10244243811     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.1056     Document Type: Article

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