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
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
Materias:
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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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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