A Rare Case of Postoperative Encephalopathy in Twin

The clinical picture of encephalopathy invites a broad differential with multiple etiologies. It is with judicious history, hospital course, lab testing, and imaging that the ultimate cause is identified. We present a unique case of identical twins who share a similar clinical presentation of postop...

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Autores principales: Huang, Chenan A, Casey, Caroline, Ismael, Hussam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Genetics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10184516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37197100
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37610
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description The clinical picture of encephalopathy invites a broad differential with multiple etiologies. It is with judicious history, hospital course, lab testing, and imaging that the ultimate cause is identified. We present a unique case of identical twins who share a similar clinical presentation of postoperative encephalopathy. The striking similarities in both twins suggest a genetic component requiring further research to identify patients who are genetically predisposed.
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spelling pubmed-101845162023-05-16 A Rare Case of Postoperative Encephalopathy in Twin Huang, Chenan A Casey, Caroline Ismael, Hussam Cureus Genetics The clinical picture of encephalopathy invites a broad differential with multiple etiologies. It is with judicious history, hospital course, lab testing, and imaging that the ultimate cause is identified. We present a unique case of identical twins who share a similar clinical presentation of postoperative encephalopathy. The striking similarities in both twins suggest a genetic component requiring further research to identify patients who are genetically predisposed. Cureus 2023-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10184516/ /pubmed/37197100 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37610 Text en Copyright © 2023, Huang et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short A Rare Case of Postoperative Encephalopathy in Twin
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