What causes irreversible prolonged coma after severe hypoglycaemia?

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 749-750

  Tong, D ^a   Gong, Y ^a  

^a SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; BASAL GANGLION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NECROSIS; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE INFUSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIC COMA; LETTER; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROIMAGING; PONS; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN DEATH; DIABETIC COMA; FATAL OUTCOME; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 67649814690     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: 14645491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2009.02744.x     Document Type: Letter

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