Focal epileptic seizure induced by transient hypoglycaemia in insulin-treated diabetes

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 84-87

  Lapenta, Leonardo ^a   Di Bonaventura, Carlo ^a   Fattouch, Jinane ^a   Bonini, Francesca ^a   Petrucci, Simona ^a   Gagliardi, Silvia ^a   Casciato, Sara ^a   Manfredi, Mario ^a,b   Prencipe, Massimiliano ^a   Giallonardo, Anna Teresa ^a  

^a Policlinico Umberto I   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute symptom; Diabetes; Epileptic seizure; Hypoglycaemia

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ADULT; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CASE REPORT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; HYPOGLYCEMIA; NEUROIMAGING; NOTE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRISMUS; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN; MIDDLE AGED; SEIZURES; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 77952317297     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: 19506945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2010.0293     Document Type: Note

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