Fasciculations in brain death.
OBJECTIVE
Brain death is the colloquial name for human death determined by tests showing irreversible cessation of the clinical functions of the brain. Spontaneous and reflex movements have been described in brain death. The aim of this report is to describe a brain-dead patient with unusual motor movements.


METHODS
The patient was followed and her motor movements were videotaped.


METHODS
We report the presence of extensive and long-lasting fasciculations in a patient who fulfilled the criteria for brain death.


RESULTS
We describe and show on videotape a brain-dead patient with rare motor movements.


CONCLUSIONS
We suggest that fasciculations outlined in this study has to be accepted as motor symptoms in brain death patients.
Beckmann
Yesim Yetimalar
YY
Department of Neurology, Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, İzmir, Turkey. ybeckmann@gmail.com
Ciftçi
Yeliz
Y
Seçil
Yaprak
Y
Eren
Sölen
S
D000368:Aged; D001926:Brain Death / Q000473:pathology*; D003128:Coma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D016638:Critical Illness; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005207:Fasciculation / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D015600:Glasgow Coma Scale; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods