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Severe amnesia after hypoglycemia. Clinical, psychometric, and magnetic resonance imaging correlations
J Chalmers1, M T Risk, D M Kean
1Department of Medicine, Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, Fife, UK.
Diabetes Care
|October 1, 1991
Abstract
Objective:
To determine the correlation between clinical, psychometric, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings after an episode of hypoglycemic coma resulting in amnesia.
Research Design And Methods:
Detailed psychometric assessment, especially memory testing, performed with MRI in a man with severe amnesia after hypoglycemic coma.
Results:
Psychometric testing confirmed impaired immediate recall. MRI findings were consistent with a lesion in the left temporal lobe.
Conclusions:
This is the first description of MRI in determining the neurological damage in hypoglycemic coma.