Symptom
Coma
A state of prolonged, profound unconsciousness in which the patient cannot be aroused and fails to respond purposefully to external stimuli.
Causes
Brain injury
Stroke
Brain tumor
Central nervous system infection
Seizure
Hyperglycemia
Hypoglycemia
Anoxia
Hepatic encephalopathy
Kidney failure
Severe hypothyroidism (myxedema coma)
Severe hypothermia
Drugs (sedatives, alcohol)
Carbon monoxide poisoning
Also known as: Comatose, Unconsciousness
Referencing diagnoses
- Acute intermittent porphyria
- Acute liver failure
- Aortic dissection
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Encephalitis
- Endocarditis
- Epidural hematoma
- Fat embolism syndrome
- Hepatic encephalopathy
- Hypercalcemia
- Hypermagnesemia
- Hypernatremia
- Hypomagnesemia
- Hyponatremia
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Hypopituitarism
- Hypothyroidism
- Intracerebral hemorrhage
- Lead toxicity
- Lung cancer
- Meningitis
- Portal hypertension
- Renal failure
- Ruptured aortic aneurysm
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Subdural hematoma
- Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
- Viral hepatitis
Note: Lists existing diagnoses in Diagnotize only.