Alpha coma evolving into spindle coma in a case of acute fulminant hepatic failure: What does it signify?

A 44-year-old male developed acute fulminant hepatic failure of unknown etiology and expired within four days. His serial electroencephalograms (EEGs) showed diffuse background slowing on day one, which evolved into “alpha coma” and later into “spindle coma” over the ensuing two days. Such EEG trans...

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Autores principales: Das, Abhijit, Cherian, Ajith, Dash, G. K, Radhakrishnan, Ashalatha
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2859594/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20436753
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.61285
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description A 44-year-old male developed acute fulminant hepatic failure of unknown etiology and expired within four days. His serial electroencephalograms (EEGs) showed diffuse background slowing on day one, which evolved into “alpha coma” and later into “spindle coma” over the ensuing two days. Such EEG transition is hitherto undescribed in patients with hepatic encephalopathy and gives fresh insight into the etiopathogenesis of specific EEG patterns in diffuse encephalopathy.
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spelling pubmed-28595942010-04-30 Alpha coma evolving into spindle coma in a case of acute fulminant hepatic failure: What does it signify? Das, Abhijit Cherian, Ajith Dash, G. K Radhakrishnan, Ashalatha Ann Indian Acad Neurol Case Report A 44-year-old male developed acute fulminant hepatic failure of unknown etiology and expired within four days. His serial electroencephalograms (EEGs) showed diffuse background slowing on day one, which evolved into “alpha coma” and later into “spindle coma” over the ensuing two days. Such EEG transition is hitherto undescribed in patients with hepatic encephalopathy and gives fresh insight into the etiopathogenesis of specific EEG patterns in diffuse encephalopathy. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2859594/ /pubmed/20436753 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.61285 Text en © Annals of Indian Academy Neurology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 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 work is properly cited.
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Alpha coma evolving into spindle coma in a case of acute fulminant hepatic failure: What does it signify?
title Alpha coma evolving into spindle coma in a case of acute fulminant hepatic failure: What does it signify?
title_full Alpha coma evolving into spindle coma in a case of acute fulminant hepatic failure: What does it signify?
title_fullStr Alpha coma evolving into spindle coma in a case of acute fulminant hepatic failure: What does it signify?
title_full_unstemmed Alpha coma evolving into spindle coma in a case of acute fulminant hepatic failure: What does it signify?
title_short Alpha coma evolving into spindle coma in a case of acute fulminant hepatic failure: What does it signify?
title_sort alpha coma evolving into spindle coma in a case of acute fulminant hepatic failure: what does it signify?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2859594/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.61285
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