TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Delayed leukoencephalopathy after carbon monoxide poisoning presenting as subacute dementia
JO  - Internal medicine
A1  - Mizuno, Yu
A1  - Sakurai, Yasuhisa
A1  - Sugimoto, Izumi
A1  - Ichinose, Keiko
A1  - Ishihara, Shoichiro
A1  - Sanjo, Nobuo
A1  - Mizusawa, Hidehiro
A1  - Mannen, Toru
SP  - 1441
EP  - 1445
VL  - 53
IS  - 13
N2  - We herein report the case of a 65-year-old woman who presented with the subacute onset of dementia and subsequently developed abnormal behavior and a gait disturbance. Her condition transiently improved; however, within one month, she became drowsy and poorly responsive, with limb chorea and urinary incontinence. Her history of frequently using charcoal led us to diagnose her with carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. The findings of this case and a literature review suggest that subacute dementia due to CO poisoning recovers late, after a year or more, in patients above sixty years of age, and both hyperbaric oxygen and corticosteroid pulse therapy should be considered in such cases, even after one month.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0918-2918
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -