LABILE DIABETES: ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC STATUS AND EFFECT OF ANTICONVULSIVE THERAPY
Authors: M FABRYKANT, B L PACELLA
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1948)

Article1 November 1948LABILE DIABETES: ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC STATUS AND EFFECT OF ANTICONVULSIVE THERAPYMAXIMILIAN FABRYKANT, M.D., BERNARD L. PACELLA, M.D.MAXIMILIAN FABRYKANT, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, BERNARD L. PACELLA, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-29-5-860 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn a study of spontaneous hypoglycemia associated with electrocerebral dysfunction1emphasis was laid on the similarity of symptoms in both conditions for which reason their coexistence may be overlooked. It was also shown that in such patients the clinical manifestations of hypoglycemia may develop in absence of critically low blood sugar levels, and it was assumed that when both conditions are operative in the same subject the threshold for the development of clinical reactions is decreased. 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Y.*Received for publication December 26, 1947.From the Division of Metabolism, Department of Medicine and the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, New York, N. Y. 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