Case 33-2012: A 34-year-old woman with episodic paresthesias and altered mental status after childbirth

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 367, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 1637-1646

  Pallais, J Carl ^a,b   Blake, Michael A ^a,b   Deshpande, Vikram ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; CLONIDINE; ENOXAPARIN; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SERTRALINE; VITAMIN;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BREAST FEEDING; CASE REPORT; CHILDBIRTH; CONFUSION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY WARD; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEAT INTOLERANCE; HOPELESSNESS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIC HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSOMNIA; INSULINOMA; LETHARGY; MENTAL DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORAL PARESTHESIA; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREATIC NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PANIC; PARESTHESIA; PATHOLOGICAL CRYING; PELVIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; PUERPERIUM; THIGH; THIRST; THOUGHT DISORDER; VAGINAL DELIVERY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HYPERINSULINISM; PANCREAS; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PUERPERAL DISORDER; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERINSULINISM; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULINOMA; MENTAL DISORDERS; PANCREAS; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PARESTHESIA; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 84867774222     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1114037     Document Type: Article

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