These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Miller Fisher syndrome, a brainstem encephalitis, mimics brain death.
    Author: Ragosta K.
    Journal: Clin Pediatr (Phila); 1993 Nov; 32(11):685-7. PubMed ID: 8299301.
    Abstract:
    Miller Fisher syndrome is a rare focal encephalitis of the brainstem characterized by cranial nerve palsy, ataxia, and areflexia. While this condition usually is mild and self-limiting, as this case documents, findings may fulfill many of the criteria in the clinical examination for brain death. Unlike brain death, however, it is not associated with irreparable structural damage of the brain or, as is mandatory, does it fulfill a very important prerequisite of brain death, the exclusion of potentially reversible causes of coma. Treatment of Miller Fisher syndrome is supportive.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]