Diazepam and dialysis encephalopathy

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Abstract
A patient with the clinical and EEG features of dialysis encephalopathy exhibited dramatic improvement with the initiation of diazepam therapy. Although improvement was sustained for a period of several weeks, her clinical condition eventually deteriorated despite continued treatment with diazepam and dialysis. Dialysis encephalopathy in this patient is compared with other cases recently reported in the medical literature as having a similar dramatic response to diazepam. Diazepam transiently reverses a component of dialysis encphalopathy syndrome, but it does not appear to change the ultimate prognosis for patients with this condition.

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