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Jack Margolis, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1979;139(1):103-104.

Abstract
Hypothermia is a grave prognostic finding in hepatic coma. Occasionally, it is found in patients whose conditions are stabilized clinically or are improving. When hypothermia occurs, the patients usually die within 24 to 48 hours.

All of the patients described herein who eventually improved sufficiently to be discharged from the hospital achieved normal temperatures.

(Arch Intern Med 139:103-104, 1979)

Author Affiliations
From the Veterans Administration Hospital, Big Spring, Tex, and the Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University School of Medicine, Lubbock.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 12, 1978.

Reprint requests to Veterans Administration Hospital, Big Spring, TX 79720 (Dr Margolis).

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