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Can persistent cerebral damage be caused by hyperglycaemia?
1Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK.
Paediatric Anaesthesia
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
An eight-year-old girl demonstrated severe and persistent neurological damage following an uneventful anaesthetic for a planned appendicectomy. The perioperative period was remarkable only in that the patient experienced very severe hyperglycaemia and an epileptiform convulsion. A possible mechanism for neurological damage as a result of severe hyperglycaemia is described.