Cause of Brain Damage
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When our experience of infants with hypernatraemic dehydration was reported 6 years ago from this hospital, the comment was made that, 'the follow-up period was, for many patients, too short to permit any evaluation of ultimate neurological status' (Macaulay and Blackhall, 1961). As far as we are aware no long-term studies of such patients have yet been published. This paper is a record of our attempts to discover the eventual neurological status of infants who had suffered from illnesses in which hypernatraemia had developed. The study was prospective, in that we started by identifying all patients recorded to have serum sodium levels of 150 mEq/l. or above (the criterion used in our previous investigation) and then tried to trace them.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007