Rapid recovery from coma with multifocal PLEDs in a patient with severe dementia and transient hypoxemia

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 823-826

  Begum, Tahamina ^a   Ikeda, Akio ^a   Yoshioka, Atsuko ^a   Sawada, Hideyuki ^b   Fukuyama, Hidenao ^a   Shibasaki, Hiroshi ^a,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UTANO NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c TAKEDA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dementia; Electroencephalography (EEG); Multifocal PLEDs

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONVALESCENCE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; THETA RHYTHM;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; COMA; DEMENTIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION;

EID: 33746925996     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1625     Document Type: Article

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