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Case Reports
. 2020 Jul;130(7):746-748.
doi: 10.1080/00207454.2019.1702541. Epub 2019 Dec 12.

Irreversible diffuse hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, secondary to type I Kounis syndrome

Haralabos Anastogiannis  1 , Pantelis Litsardopoulos  2 , Garifallia G Anastopoulou  3 , Andreas Petsas  1 , Grigorios Tsigkas  4 , Nicholas G Kounis  4 , Ifigenia Ravani  1 , Andreas A Argyriou  2
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Irreversible diffuse hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, secondary to type I Kounis syndrome

Haralabos Anastogiannis et al. Int J Neurosci. 2020 Jul.

Abstract

We herein describe the unusual case of irreversible diffuse hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy secondary to type I Kounis syndrome. The patient survived and remained in a vegetative state after being mechanically ventilated in the intensive care unit for long. A brief review of the literature on mechanisms for KS-associated brain injury is also presented.

Keywords: Kounis syndrome; brain injury; hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy; type I; vegetative state.

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