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BASAL METABOLIC RATE IN PATIENTS WITH HYDROCEPHALUS
Author(s) -
Hidle Ivar,
Sjaastad Ottar
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
acta neurologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.967
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1600-0404
pISSN - 0001-6314
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1976.tb04344.x
Subject(s) - basal metabolic rate , basal (medicine) , hydrocephalus , myotonic dystrophy , cardiology , medicine , atrophy , surgery , insulin
Myotonic dystrophy seems to have a hypometabolism of non‐thyroid origin. the hypometabolism could hypothetically be caused by: 1) reduction in muscle mass, 2) hydrocephalus ex vacuo , an integral part of the disorder, or 3) the basic disease process itself. Possibility 2) was explored by determining basal metabolic rate (BMR) in 41 patients with dilatation. A BMR of < 10 per cent was found in eight cases. the ventricles were categorized in three groups according to width. No decrease in mean BMR was found in cases with a marked ventricular enlargement. Thus, ventricular dilatation per se does not seem to lead to hypometabolism.