Am J Psychiatry 1975; 132:1321-1324
Copyright © 1975 by American Psychiatric Association
Organic brain dysfunction as a possible consequence of postgastrectomy hypoglycemia
L Hafken, S Leichter and T Reich
Unlike the fasting hypoglycemias, the reactive hypoglycemias, including
postgastrectomy hypoglycemia, are generally not believed to result in
serious neuropsychiatric dysfunction. The authors describe two patients
with progressive mental deterioration and alimentary hypoglycemia and
suggest that clinicians should recognize the possibility of serious
neuropsychiatric sequelae of postgastrectomy hypoglycemia.
