The 464th case: sudden convulsion and coma in a patient with acute leukemia / 中华内科杂志

ABSTRACT

A 46-year-old female patient was diagnosed as mixed phenotype acute leukemia with chief complaints of intermittent gingival swelling and bleeding for 1 week. The induction chemotherapy was not effective. During the second course chemotherapy, the patient had sudden convulsion and coma. She was transferred to the intensive care unit with worsened condition after transient improvement. Her final diagnosis was secondary adrenocortical insufficiency, adrenal crisis, intractable hyponatremia and cerebral edema.