A Case of Valproate Induced Hyperammonemic Encephalopathy in an Elderly Bipolar Patient Under Treatment With Sulphonylureas
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Abstract
Valproic acid induced hyperammonaemic encephalopathy (VPAVHE) is a rare side effect of valproic acid. It is characterized by impaired consciousness and lethargy, focal neurological signs or symptoms with a serum level of ammonia above 40 mmol/L. This syndrome is often misdiagnosed, especially in psychiatricsetting. Wepresentthe case of a bipolar patient who developed VPA-VHE. He assumed also sulphonylureas to manage mild hyperglycemia. After three months of treatment with valproic acid patient had a depressive episode and acute onset of headache, disorientation, consciousness impairment, and psychomotor slowing. This presentation induced to make investigation and we have discovered hyperammonaemia with EEG alteration; a diagnosis of valproate induced hyperammonemic encephalopathy (VHE) was made. The patient recovered quickly after discontinuing valproic acid therapy. Valproic acid is a frequent treatment in psychiatricsetting and a betterknowledge of possibleadverseeffectsisimportant to prevent and manage rare conditions like VHE.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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