Noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus-related encephalopathy presenting with amnesia, personality change, and autonomic seizure

Intern Med. 1997 Sep;36(9):633-6. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.36.633.

Abstract

We describe a patient with noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus presenting with an amnestic disorder, personality change, and autonomic seizure. Magnetic resonance images of the brain showed T2-high signal lesion in the hippocampi bilaterally and nonspecific white matter disease, while single photon emission computed tomography revealed a diffuse reduction of cerebral blood flow. Sensory and auditory evoked potentials revealed delayed impulse conduction velocities in the central nervous system. Degenerative changes caused by a microvascular angiopathy related to noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus may underlie the central nervous system manifestations in our patient.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Action Potentials / physiology
  • Adult
  • Amnesia / diagnosis*
  • Autonomic Nervous System Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain / pathology
  • Brain Diseases / complications*
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / complications*
  • Diabetic Neuropathies / complications
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Evoked Potentials, Auditory / physiology
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Personality Disorders / diagnosis*
  • Radiography
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Seizures / complications*