title: Petit mal status in a patient with chronic renal failure.
abstract: A 39-year-old woman with traumatic spinal paraplegia and chronic renal failure had peritoneal dialysis for acute renal failure precipitated by a bout of urinary tract infection. Two weeks after the dialysis she lapsed into coma for a few days. An electroencephalogram indicated petit mal stupor as it showed generalized epileptic discharges during the initial period of her coma.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000150:complications*; D013226:Status Epilepticus / Q000150:complications*