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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
Volume 132, Issue 10, Pages 1142-1147Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2019.07.001
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Altered mental status; Confusional state; Encephalopathy
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Encephalopathy refers to dysfunction of the level or contents of consciousness due to brain dysfunction and can result from global brain insults or focal lesions. The underlying causes of encephalopathy include both primary neurologic and systemic conditions. This article discusses the differential diagnosis of encephalopathy, with a focus on primary neurologic causes. A practical schema for organizing the differential diagnosis is to group etiologies by their pace of onset and evolution (eg, sudden, acute, subacute, chronic). (C) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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