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Dementia due to carbon monoxide poisoning

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Dementia due to carbon monoxide poisoning – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/861189091

Carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication is known to sometimes cause delayed anoxic encephalopathy (DAE), which manifests neuropsychiatric symptoms including cognitive decline, dementia, hypokinesia, akinetic mutism, agitation, irritable distractibility, apathy, urinary or faecal incontinence, depression and mania. Mania is a very rare manifestation in DAE after CO intoxication.

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