Hypoglycemia misdiagnosed as cerebrovascular accident.
Hypoglycemia can give rise to a variety of neurological signs and symptoms. This may occur in the absence of the well known signs of acute hypoglycemia taught to diabetics on insulin. In the past year, 6 patients with hypoglycemia were admitted with a diagnosis of cerebrovascular accident. They were all being treated with oral hypoglycemic drugs. The neurological signs all reversed immediately with the restoration of a normal blood glucose. Their circumstances of admission illustrate some of the difficulties in making the correct diagnosis in this group of patients.
D000368:Aged; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007003:Hypoglycemia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged