A 22-month-old toddler presented with involuntary movements, hemiparesis, and behavioral changes. Magnetic resonance imaging showed no abnormality, but positron emission tomography (PET) showed focal hypermetabolism. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Weight Loss

  SUMMARY: Cancer patients may develop weight loss, cachexia, which can be distressing for both patients and their family. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  The terms used to describe weight loss (hypermetabolism, cachexia, wasting, catabolism) are often inconsistent. The aim of this review is to define the components of energy expenditure and the terms that describe inappropriate weight loss. [journals.lww.com]

  Hypermetabolism in MND patients is associated with a greater functional decline but not a change in RFTs or weight loss. [jnnp.bmj.com]

  Symptoms include sudden weight loss, anemia, and fatigue. [wisegeek.com]

• Heat Intolerance

  Hyperthyroidism: Patients with hyperthyroidism can have mild to overt symptoms, which include anxiety, emotional lability, weakness, tremor, palpitations, heat intolerance, increased perspiration, and weight loss despite a normal or increased appetite [healthtap.com]

  A dictionary of medical eponyms Related people Lars Ernster Rolf Luft A syndrome characterised by severe hypermetabolism, heat intolerance, profuse perspiration, polyphagia, polydipsia without polyuria, muscular wasting and weakness, absent deep reflexes [whonamedit.com]

• Wound Infection

  Demographics, clinical data, serum hormone levels, serum cytokine expression profiles, organ function, hypermetabolism measures, muscle protein synthesis, incidence of wound infection sepsis, and body composition were obtained throughout the acute hospital [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  Pruitt BA Jr, McManus AT, Kim SH, Goodwin CW (1998) Burn wound infections: current status. World J Surg 22: 135-145. [criticalcare.imedpub.com]

• Cerebral Palsy

  Thus, positron emission tomography can help predict this form of cerebral palsy in neonates. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Asymptomatic

  Here, we investigated relative changes in regional brain metabolism in Kleine-Levin syndrome (KLS) during symptomatic episodes and asymptomatic periods, as compared to healthy controls. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Tachycardia

  Supraphysiologic levels of stress hormones contribute to the long-lasting tachycardia, catabolism, and immune suppression that characterize the hypermetabolic response. [ijburns.com]

  • Elevated heart rate ( tachycardia ). • Irregular heart beat. • Excessive sweating. • Shortness of breath. • Dysautonomia ( is a condition in which autonomic nervous system do not work properly) • Insomnia. • Muscle weakness. • Nervousness. • High [healthcaretip.com]

  […] medical eponyms Related people Lars Ernster Rolf Luft A syndrome characterised by severe hypermetabolism, heat intolerance, profuse perspiration, polyphagia, polydipsia without polyuria, muscular wasting and weakness, absent deep reflexes, and resting tachycardia [whonamedit.com]

  Tachycardia, dysrhythmias, and a sympathetic catecholamine surge occur. The hypermetabolism evokes a massive exothermic response, leading to extreme temperature elevation. [emedicine.medscape.com]

  It has been suggested that blocking b-adrenergic stimulation after severe burns decreases supraphysiologic thermogenesis, tachycardia, cardiac work, resting energy expenditure [ 125 ]. Propanolol is an important β-adrenergic receptor blocker. [criticalcare.imedpub.com]

• Contusion

  A 65-year-old male with an old cerebral contusion in the frontal lobes had suffered from status complex partial seizures. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Blepharospasm

  We examined the difference in cerebral function alterations between drug-induced blepharospasm patients and essential blepharospasm (EB) patients by using positron emission tomography with (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Vertical Gaze Palsy

  A 52-year-old man developed vertical gaze palsy, convergence spasm, and convergence-retraction nystagmus due to glioblastoma of the right thalamus. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET) inadvertently demonstrated markedly increased [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Visual Hallucination

  However, visual hallucinations were significantly more frequent in the patients with hypermetabolism in all 3 areas (P 0.0018). Hypermetabolism is common in patients with DLB and may be related to visual hallucinations. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Urinary Retention

  Abstract A 24-year-old Saudi man presented with progressive lower-back pain for 3 months followed by lower-limb weakness, numbness, and urinary retention. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Nystagmus

  A 52-year-old man developed vertical gaze palsy, convergence spasm, and convergence-retraction nystagmus due to glioblastoma of the right thalamus. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET) inadvertently demonstrated markedly increased [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Myoclonus

  Focal hypermetabolism corresponding with epileptic foci is a common finding in ictal epilepsy patients, and hypometabolism is common in patients with myoclonus or the startle reaction. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Truncal Ataxia

  A 52-year-old man with vertigo and imbalance for two weeks showed spontaneous downbeat (DBN), horizontal gaze-evoked, and positional apogeotropic nystagmus along with severe limb and truncal ataxia. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Limb Weakness

  Abstract A 24-year-old Saudi man presented with progressive lower-back pain for 3 months followed by lower-limb weakness, numbness, and urinary retention. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

FDG-PET hypermetabolism, however, is rarely seen, and the significance of this finding in the epilepsy workup is not well established. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Hypermetabolism of phenytoin is not frequently recognized as a cause of treatment failure. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The presence of hypermetabolism may be a factor related to poorer prognosis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Mitsumoto H, Chad DA, Pioro EP: Course and prognosis; in Mitsumoto H, Chad DA, Pioro EP (eds): Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Philadelphia, Davis, 1998, pp 151–163. [karger.com]

In contrast, most studies show a higher rate of infectious complications and poorer prognosis when tumor patients are nourished with PN 14 (Ia), 15 (Ib). [scielo.isciii.es]

METHODS: Resting energy expenditure (REE) was measured using indirect calorimetry in 256 cirrhotic patients with different etiologies and disease severity (165 men, 91 women; median age 49 y, age range 16-73 y; median model for end-stage liver disease [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Bartlett Published 1988 in Acta Neurochirurgica DOI: 10.1007/BF01402895 Both metabolic rate and protein catabolism are known to increase following severe head trauma, but the etiology of this hypermetabolism is unknown. [pdfs.semanticscholar.org]

Abstract: Both metabolic rate and protein catabolism are known to increase following severe head trauma, but the etiology of this hypermetabolism is unknown. [deepblue.lib.umich.edu]

I did some more research tonight into the biology and etiology of hypermetabolism. So let’s start with a basic definition from Wikipedia : Hypermetabolism is the physiological state of increased rate of metabolic activity. [edbites.com]

Recognition of the underlying etiology and treatment was possible because of abnormalities uncovered on positron emission tomographic images. [scholars.northwestern.edu]

Epidemiology The reported frequency of MH in the United States ranges from 1 in 10,000 patients receiving anesthetics to 1 in 50,000; the reported frequency in children is higher. [emedicine.medscape.com]

Increased glucose metabolism on the interictal PET scan and decreased glucose metabolism on an interictal PET scan in the epileptogenic supratentorial zones and the contralateral cerebellar hemisphere are interesting observations for understanding the pathophysiology [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

From a treatment perspective, it is recognized that there is probably no "magic bullet"; that regimens will probably be time dependent and "multiple drug"; and that the best treatment is prevention. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

This circulatory stimulation, after regional 2,4-dinitrophenol infusion, was abolished or was prevented from occurring by splenectomy. 6. [clinsci.org]

Unfortunately, existing nutritional therapies are inadequate for preventing the onset of persistent hypermetabolism, because many of the mechanistic details of this process are poorly understood. [dspace.mit.edu]

In our study, neither of them was helpful in preventing esophageal stricture. [omicsonline.org]