FURTHER STUDIES ON ELECTROCEREBRAL DYSFUNCTION AND THE USE OF ANTICONVULSANTS IN LABILE DIABETES
Authors: M FABRYKANT
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1953)

Article1 April 1953FURTHER STUDIES ON ELECTROCEREBRAL DYSFUNCTION AND THE USE OF ANTICONVULSANTS IN LABILE DIABETESMAXIMILIAN FABRYKANT, M.D.MAXIMILIAN FABRYKANT, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-38-4-814 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe brittle or labile diabetics pose a difficult problem even to physicians experienced in the treatment of diabetes. Such patients exhibit an extreme instability of their blood glucose regulation and, as previously shown,1may be subject to pseudohypoglycemic reactions, that is, reactions which occur with normal or elevated blood glucose values and are refractory to carbohydrate administration. 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