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Serial electroencephalograms in a patient with D-lactic acidosis
K Spillane1, K Nagendran, P F Prior
1Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, St. Bartholomew's Hospital and Medical College, West Smithfield, London, UK.
Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology
|November 1, 1994
Abstract:
A patient with previous bowel surgery was followed through the course of her recurrent encephalopathy with biochemically demonstrated D-lactic acidosis by detailed serial electroencephalography (EEG). Although the EEG changes were marked and parallelled the clinical and biochemical abnormalities closely, they were essentially non-specific. This diagnosis should be considered in encephalopathic patients with a history of bowel disease particularly after extensive small bowel resection.