Neurotoxin envenomation mimicking brain death in a child: A case report and review of literature

The spectrum of presentation of a victim of neurotoxic snake bite can range from mild ptosis to complete paralysis and ophthalmoplegia. We report a case of snake bite in a 10-year-old child who was comatosed with bilateral fixed dilated pupils and absent doll's eye movement that was interpreted...

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Autores principales: Dayal, Madhu, Prakash, Smita, Verma, Pradeep K, Pawar, Mridula
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4155294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25197117
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.139008
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description The spectrum of presentation of a victim of neurotoxic snake bite can range from mild ptosis to complete paralysis and ophthalmoplegia. We report a case of snake bite in a 10-year-old child who was comatosed with bilateral fixed dilated pupils and absent doll's eye movement that was interpreted as brain death. Physicians need to be aware of the likelihood of snakebite presenting as locked in syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-41552942014-09-05 Neurotoxin envenomation mimicking brain death in a child: A case report and review of literature Dayal, Madhu Prakash, Smita Verma, Pradeep K Pawar, Mridula Indian J Anaesth Case Report The spectrum of presentation of a victim of neurotoxic snake bite can range from mild ptosis to complete paralysis and ophthalmoplegia. We report a case of snake bite in a 10-year-old child who was comatosed with bilateral fixed dilated pupils and absent doll's eye movement that was interpreted as brain death. Physicians need to be aware of the likelihood of snakebite presenting as locked in syndrome. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4155294/ /pubmed/25197117 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.139008 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Neurotoxin envenomation mimicking brain death in a child: A case report and review of literature
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