RT Book, Section
A1 Ropper, Allan H.
A1 Samuels, Martin A.
A1 Klein, Joshua P.
SR Print(0)
ID 57628996
T1 Chapter 40. The Acquired Metabolic Disorders of the Nervous System
T2 Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology, 10e
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0071794794
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57628996
RD 2023/11/28
AB An  important  segment  of  neurologic  medicine,  and  one  that  is  seen  with  great  frequency  in  general  hospitals,  are  disorders  in  which  a  global  disturbance  of  cerebral  function  (encephalopathy)  results  from  failure  of  some  other  organ  system—heart  and  circulation,  lungs  and  respiration,  kidneys,  liver,  pancreas,  and  the  endocrine  glands.  Unlike  the  diseases  considered  in  Chap.  37,  in  which  a  genetic  abnormality  affects  the  metabolic  functions  of  many  organs  and  tissues  including  the  brain,  the  cerebral  disorders  discussed  in  this  chapter  are  strictly  secondary  to  derangements  of  the  visceral  organs  themselves.  They  stand  at  the  interface  of  internal  medicine  and  neurology.