The differentiation of peripheral effector neuron failure from acute brain stem dysfunction in a critically ill patient.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A patient appeared to be in coma following pneumococcal meningitis, an intracerebral haemorrhage, and a cardiac arrest. Late in the course of his illness neurophysiological investigations confirmed a proposal that he also had a fulminant acute demyelinating polyneuropathy which, for a period of five days, rendered the patient completely unresponsive. The patient recovered and is now working without any disability.
Medical subject headings
- Arousal
- Brain Stem
- Critical Care
- Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem
- Head Injuries, Closed
- Muscles
- Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
- Synaptic Transmission