Severe amnestic syndrome due to theophylline toxicity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We report a case of severe amnestic syndrome following theophylline overdose. A woman in her early 30s was admitted to hospital where she developed status epilepticus following an intentional overdose of theophylline and lansoprazole. She developed a profound acidosis and required intubation in the intensive care unit. Following extubation the patient was noted to have a severe amnestic syndrome with poor short-term memory. A work-up to exclude infectious, autoimmune and paraneoplastic causes for encephalitis was undertaken. Cerebrospinal fluid analysis was normal and autoimmune encephalitis titres were negative. Initial MRI brain imaging demonstrated hyperintensities of the mesial temporal lobes bilaterally. Follow-up imaging at 4 months identified further interval reduction but persistent hippocampal hyperintensities. Theophylline toxicity with corresponding amnestic syndrome and hippocampal hyperintensities has been rarely reported. We believe this case with persistent abnormal Montreal Cognitive Assessment Score at 12 months correlates with persistent hippocampal abnormalities seen on imaging.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
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 teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".