1Assistant Professor and Intensivist, Department of Critical care Medicine, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research
2Intensivist, Department of Critical care Medicine, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research
3Professor and Head, Department of Pulmonology and Critical care Medicine, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research
*Corresponding author: Rajkumar N, Assistant professor and Intensivist, Department of Critical care Medicine, PSG Institute of Medical sciences and Research, Peelamedu, Coimbatore-641006, India. E mail: drkumar76@gmail.com
Online published on 9 May, 2014.
Hyperammonemia is often encountered in encephalopathy due to liver failure. It is less thought as a cause of encephalopathy in patients without liver failure. We describe a case of acute encephalopathy in a twenty four years female with psychiatric illness background. More than half of ammonia is produced in intestine in our body. In the absence of liver failure metabolic causes and drugs are to be considered as a cause of hyperammonemia.
Encephalopathy, Hyperammonemia, Drugs
