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. 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.
Department of Neurology, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. s_nahrir@yahoo.com
Shahpar
S
Nahrir
Shobhit
S
Sinha
Khurram A
KA
Siddiqui
D001921:Brain / Q000187:drug effects*; D001926:Brain Death / Q000175:diagnosis*; D019855:Ethylene Glycol / Q000506:poisoning*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D046353:Immobility Response, Tonic; D008297:Male; D055815:Young Adult
D019855:Ethylene Glycol