Delayed Post-Anoxic Encephalopathy without Relation to Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.

Delayed post-anoxic encephalopathy (DPE) not related to carbon monoxide has rarely been reported and usually carries a poor prognosis. We describe two surviving patients with such DPE and its neuro-otological characteristics. The DPE was caused by shock due to hemorrhage in a 21-year-old student, and by severe hypoxia and hypotension in a 60-year-old man. Our findings suggest that this type of DPE might not be rare, if the patients who suffered...