Brake fluid toxicity feigning brain death

Brake fluid toxicity feigning brain death

Brake fluid (glycol-based) toxicity is known to have a protean of central and peripheral nervous system manifestations. The principal component of this household poison is ethylene glycol. Toxic effect is generally attributed to peri-vascular deposition of calcium oxalate crystals in various tissues...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMJ case reports 2012-07, Vol.2012, p.bcr0220125926
Hauptverfasser: Nahrir, Shahpar, Sinha, Shobhit, Siddiqui, Khurram A
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Acidosis
Botulism
Brain - drug effects
Brain death
Brain Death - diagnosis
Cerebrospinal fluid
Ethanol
Ethylene Glycol - poisoning
Fatal Outcome
Guillain-Barre syndrome
Hemodialysis
Humans
Immobility Response, Tonic
Male
Metabolism
Middle East
Nervous system
Poisoning
Poisons
Reminder of Important Clinical Lesson
Respiratory failure
Toxicity
Toxicology
Urine
Young Adult
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Zusammenfassung:Brake fluid (glycol-based) toxicity is known to have a protean of central and peripheral nervous system manifestations. The principal component of this household poison is ethylene glycol. Toxic effect is generally attributed to peri-vascular deposition of calcium oxalate crystals in various tissues. However, clinical features resembling brain death have rarely been reported. We report a case of brake fluid toxicity simulating brain death in a 21-year-old healthy man who ingested it as a recreational agent.
ISSN:1757-790X
1757-790X
DOI:10.1136/bcr-02-2012-5926