Alpha coma in a child.

Alpha coma in a child.

Transient cataracts in a diabetic child with hyperosmolar coma.

Temporary lens opacities in diabetic coma were noted by Lawrence, Oakley, and Barne (1942) and thought to be common if the lens was carefully examined. This does not appear to have been frequently discussed, but Sheldon and Pyke (i 968) showed pictures of opacities in the lens of a girl aged Io years, which cleared rapidly with treatment of the diabetic coma. Neuberg, Griscom, and Burns (1958) ...

Neurophysiological assessment of alpha pattern coma.

Somatosensory evoked potentials, blink reflexes, and H wave reflexes, were recorded on several days from three patients with alpha pattern coma. Coma was secondary to cardiac arrest in two cases and to brainstem infarction in one. Results are compatible with damage to the brainstem reticular formation with sparing of thalamo-cortical circuits as the main physiopathological characteristic of alp...

Physiologic and prognostic significance of "alpha coma".

A patient with posthypoxic "alpha coma" is described whose EEGs were recorded before coma, within two hours following the onset of coma and after recovery. The differences observed between the alpha activity during coma and that seen before and after suggest that the alpha activity during coma and the physiologic alpha rhythm are different phenomena. This case, as well as others reported, also ...

Alpha coma in an adolescent with diabetic ketoacidosis.

Ostojic S, Vukovic R, Milenkovic T, Mitrovic K, Djuric M, Nikolic L. Alpha coma in an adolescent with diabetic ketoacidosis. Turk J Pediatr 2017; 59: 318-321. This is the first report of alpha coma (AC) caused by brain edema in a patient with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). A previously healthy 15-year-old girl was admitted to the intensive care unit due to altered state of consciousness during th...