Publication at Third Faculty of Medicine |
2012
Abstract
The case report describes a fatal hypoglycemia complicated by bronchopneumonia, renal and cardiac failure in a patient treated with sulphonylurea derivatives. The progressive worsening of consciousness during the hospitalization despite sufficient blood glucose levels may be also linked to a theory of a neuronal death during the reperfusion with glucose and an increase of oxidative stress due to NADPH oxidase activation.