Prolonged and Profound Sleep

Profound and prolonged lymphocytopenia with West Nile encephalitis.

Infectious Common HIV/AIDS Typhoid fever Babesiosis Malaria Uncommon Viral hepatitis Tuberculosis Histoplasmosis Brucellosis Noninfectious Common Sarcoidosis Chronic corticosteroid use Antilymphocyte globulin Cancer chemotherapy Radiation therapy Rheumatoid arthritis Systemic lupus erythematosus Hodgkin’s disease Chronic alcohol abuse Uncommon CD4 lymphocytopenia Severe combined immunodeficienc...

Profound hypothermia with prolonged circulatory arrest. An experimental study.

Obstructive sleep apnea and prolonged mechanical ventilation.

Patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation have a high one year mortality, with recognized contributing factors including COPD, cardiac failure, renal failure, and respiratory muscle weakness.1 The study by Diaz-Abad et al2 shows that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is very common among selected obese patients who have weaned from prolonged mechanical ventilation. The study raises as many que...

Treatment by Prolonged Sleep in Psychiatry

The; treatment of certain types of mental disorder by artificial sleep maintained over a considerable period?8 to 10 days?was first introduced by Klaesi of Zurich in 1920. Since then this form' of treatment has been widely adopted in Europe?except, perhaps, in England ?and many observers have published their results. The drug that has been used most extensively for this purpose has been Somnife...

Delayed dyskinesia and prolonged psychosis in a patient presenting with profound hyponatraemia

SUMMARY A 65-year-old woman was admitted to the emergency unit with a 48 h history of generalised weakness and confusion. On examination, she had mild slurring of speech although there was no other focal neurological deficit. She had profound hyponatraemia (serum sodium level of 100 mmol/L) on admission with the rest of her metabolic parameters being within normal range. Subsequent investigatio...