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The differentiation of peripheral effector neuron failure from acute brain stem dysfunction in a critically ill
P G Bain1, G Harwood, G E Holder
1Department of Neurology, South-East Thames Regional Neurosciences Centre, Brook Hospital, London, UK.
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
|January 1, 1992
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.