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EEG Abnormalities and Convulsions in Juvenile Diabetes Mellitus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

D.L. Keene ,
K. Metrakos ,
M. Belmonte ,
G.V. Watters  and
S. Singer
D.L. Keene*
Affiliation:
Montreal Children’s Hospital, Montreal, Quebec
K. Metrakos
Affiliation:
Montreal Children’s Hospital, Montreal, Quebec
M. Belmonte
Affiliation:
Montreal Children’s Hospital, Montreal, Quebec
G.V. Watters
Affiliation:
Montreal Children’s Hospital, Montreal, Quebec
S. Singer
Affiliation:
Montreal Children’s Hospital, Montreal, Quebec
*
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8L1.
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The clinical and EEG findings were reviewed for 270 juvenile children from the Montreal Children’s Hospital Diabetic Clinic in an attempt to correlate the EEG findings at the onset of diabetes mellitus with the future risk of having a convulsion with a hypoglycemic reaction. Compared to a non-diabetic control population, the number of epileptiform EEG abnormalities was significantly increased in the initial EEG of diabetic patients who later had a hypoglycemic convulsion. The initial epiliptiform EEG did not help to differentiate those diabetics with recurrent hypoglycemic induced convulsions from diabetics who would have only a single convulsion.

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Original Articles
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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , August 1983 , pp. 198 - 199
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1983

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