Neurologic sequelae of acute carbon monoxide intoxication
D. J. Lacey
Notable neuropsychologic symptoms persist in a 9-year-old girl one year
after an acute exposure to carbon monoxide (CO). Perceptual deficits,
personality alterations, and computerized tomographic evidence of
leukoencephalopathy persist. Three of five children admitted between 1973
and 1978 with the diagnosis of acute CO intoxication also have residual
behavioral and/or school difficulties. Physicians caring for children
should consider CO poisoning in the differential diagnosis of an acute
encephalopathic state and anticipate its potentially long-term effects.
