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Altered mental status due to metabolic or endocrine disorders.

Bazakis AM, Kunzler C

Synergy Medical Education Alliance, 1000 Houghton Avenue, Saginaw, MI 48602, USA. abazakis@pol.net

The differential diagnoses for mental status alteration is broad. Endocrine or metabolic causes for emergency department patients who present with lethargy, anxiety, psychosis, and seizures should be considered. Using the complaint-based approach, this article discusses some of the often less obvious etiologies for these presentations related to endocrine and metabolic disease states.

Published 28 June 2005 in Emerg Med Clin North Am, 23(3): 901-8, x-xi.
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