Hypoglycorrhachia

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cerebrospinal fluid, glucose

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• Hypoglycorrhachia is practically always found with glucose concentrations as low as 10 to 20 mg/dL in some patients.
• Hypoglycorrhachia is uncommon and should suggest search for a different diagnosis.
• If hypoglycorrhachia is present, glucose uptake studies, GLUT1 immunoblot, and molecular analyses of the GLUT1-gene should be performed and a KD introduced early to provide an alternative fuel for brain metabolism.
• Hypoglycorrhachia is not a prominent finding in the CSF.
• Hypoglycorrhachia is present in approximately 70 percent of cases.

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