Nonketotic hyperglycemic hyperosmolar coma (literature review)

Authors

  • Heon Young Kwon Author

Keywords:

hyperglycemia; hyperosmolality; insulin; disturbance of consciousness; glucose; plasma osmolality; increased blood sugar; phenytoin; dehydration; mannitol

Abstract

Nonketotic hyperglycemic hyperosmolar Coma is a syndrome characterized by the absence of ketones, obvious hyperglycemia, high osmolarity and high dehydration. It was first reported by Dreschfeld as early as 1886 and later by Warburg. But it went unnoticed for a long time until 1957, when Sament and De Graeff successively published the accompanying

Published

2012-12-09

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 2 (2012)

Section

Articles