Intermediate Syndrome and Marchiafava-Bignami Syndrome: Double Trouble in Weaning Off

Intermediate syndrome affects 10-40% of those with severe organophosphorus poisoning, causing delayed weakness in the proximal parts of the body, neck flexors, and breathing muscles. We present the case of organophosphorus poisoning that advanced to intermediate syndrome and subsequently worsened, w...

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Autores principales: Kabra, Ruchita, Patel, Maharshi, Bhansali, Pratik J, Kumar, Sunil, Acharya, Sourya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9358054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35949784
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26694
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author Kabra, Ruchita
Patel, Maharshi
Bhansali, Pratik J
Kumar, Sunil
Acharya, Sourya
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description Intermediate syndrome affects 10-40% of those with severe organophosphorus poisoning, causing delayed weakness in the proximal parts of the body, neck flexors, and breathing muscles. We present the case of organophosphorus poisoning that advanced to intermediate syndrome and subsequently worsened, with imaging later revealing the Marchiafava-Bignami condition, which aggravated the intermediate syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-93580542022-08-09 Intermediate Syndrome and Marchiafava-Bignami Syndrome: Double Trouble in Weaning Off Kabra, Ruchita Patel, Maharshi Bhansali, Pratik J Kumar, Sunil Acharya, Sourya Cureus Emergency Medicine Intermediate syndrome affects 10-40% of those with severe organophosphorus poisoning, causing delayed weakness in the proximal parts of the body, neck flexors, and breathing muscles. We present the case of organophosphorus poisoning that advanced to intermediate syndrome and subsequently worsened, with imaging later revealing the Marchiafava-Bignami condition, which aggravated the intermediate syndrome. Cureus 2022-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9358054/ /pubmed/35949784 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26694 Text en Copyright © 2022, Kabra et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Kabra, Ruchita
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Bhansali, Pratik J
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Intermediate Syndrome and Marchiafava-Bignami Syndrome: Double Trouble in Weaning Off
title Intermediate Syndrome and Marchiafava-Bignami Syndrome: Double Trouble in Weaning Off
title_full Intermediate Syndrome and Marchiafava-Bignami Syndrome: Double Trouble in Weaning Off
title_fullStr Intermediate Syndrome and Marchiafava-Bignami Syndrome: Double Trouble in Weaning Off
title_full_unstemmed Intermediate Syndrome and Marchiafava-Bignami Syndrome: Double Trouble in Weaning Off
title_short Intermediate Syndrome and Marchiafava-Bignami Syndrome: Double Trouble in Weaning Off
title_sort intermediate syndrome and marchiafava-bignami syndrome: double trouble in weaning off
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9358054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35949784
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26694
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