polyuria/癲癇性発作

Lithium intoxication causes polyuria, central nervous system manifestations, and ultimately stupor progressing to coma. Moreover, polyuria leading to hypernatraemia itself can progress to convulsions and coma. We present a patient with lithium intoxication who remained polyuric, hypernatraemic and

Focal motor seizures are common in nonketotic hyperglycemia but occipital seizures as the initial symptom of hyperglycemia are exceptional. Sporadic electroencephalographic description has rarely been reported. A 56-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 4-day history of

Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a life-threatening condition and a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus. The deficiency of insulin leads to metabolic decompensation, causing hyperglycemia and ketosis that resolves with the administration of insulin and

We report a rare case of cisplatin-induced acute hyponatremia leading to a seizure and coma. A 66-year-old woman with breast cancer received adjuvant chemotherapy with docetaxel and cisplatin. She had no nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea during or after chemotherapy administration. She had an acute

Pica is an unusual condition in which patients crave and chew substances with no nutritional value. Ice pica (pagophagia) is commonly seen in patient with iron deficiency. People chew ice cubes or add ice to their drinks to cool or refresh themselves, and they may not consider this as an abnormal

Gitelman syndrome is one of the few inherited causes of metabolic alkalosis due to salt losing tubulopathy. It is caused by tubular defects at the level of distal convoluted tubules, mimicking a thiazide-like tumor. It usually presents in late childhood or in teenage as nonspecific weakness,

Severe partial seizures may be the presenting feature of nonketotic hyperglycemia in older adults, but cases in children are rare. We report three teenagers with well-controlled epilepsy who suddenly developed intractable partial seizures poorly responsive to anticonvulsants. Blood glucose levels

A 56-year-old woman was hospitalized with a right hemiplegia and aphasia evoking a cerebral infarction. In fact the neurologic deficits were of post-ictal origin, secondary to a partial epilepsy which began a few weeks before, at the same time as a polyuria-polydipsia syndrome revealing diabetes

Review of 60 consecutive records of patients who died before the age of 53 years in a state mental hospital revealed that 27 of those patients (45%) had a schizophrenic disorder. Of those 27 patients, five (18.5%) died of the complications of self-induced water intoxication and schizophrenic

Central Diabetes Insipidus mostly presents with polydipsia and polyuria but may also present with confusion, psychosis, seizure or coma. We present a case of Central Diabetes Insipidus presenting with manic symptoms. A 21 year old Indian male had Central Diabetes Insipidus, which was confirmed by

Central pontine myelinolysis (CPM) has been reported in women with severe hyperemesis gravidarum-induced hyponatremia followed by rapid correction. Gestational diabetes with adipsia complicated by acute hypernatremia resulting in CPM has never been reported. Here is a case of a disabled female who

Five children had bilateral optic nerve hypoplasia, absent septum pellucidum, and hypopituitarism. Absence of the septum pellucidum was shown by computed axial tomography. All of the children were first-born. One of the children was definitely not mentally retarded and one at age 7 months was

OBJECTIVE Desmopressin has been used extensively for primary nocturnal enuresis and it is associated with a low incidence of adverse effects. The only reported serious side effect is seizure or altered levels of consciousness resulting from water intoxication, which has been reported for the nasal

A case of cerebral polyuric hyponatremia was reported. A 64-year-old lady had complained of visual disturbance for 4 years. She was operated upon under the diagnosis of tuberculum sellae meningioma. Sever days following operation tremendous polyuria was senn, i. e. polyuria over 40 l/day, massive