Extraocular Muscle Paralysis Due to Snakebite

Extraocular Muscle Paresis Caused by Snakebite

A 51year-old man presented with binocular diplopia on the three days after the snakebite in the fifth finger of the right hand by an Agkistrodon blomhoffi (mamushi). In the primary position he had an exotropia and right hypertropia, which became apparent when his head was tilted to the right. From ocular angle of deviation measured by synoptophore and Hess chart test, he was diagnosed as having...

Effectiveness of Alpha Chymotrypsin on the Treatment of Severe Paralysis due to Bungarus Multicinctus Snakebite

Excessive Muscle Paralysis Due to Pulmonary Carcinoid —A Case Report

We present the case of a 58-year-old woman with a renin secreting typical bronchopulmonary carcinoid. This patient showed hypotension, constipation and fatigue due to extensive hypokaliemia (K =1.9 meq/L). Aldosterone (102.7 ng/100 mL) and renin (46 ng/mL) were excessively elevated at that time, but cortisol level was normal. Routine chest roentgenography and computed tomography revealed a nodu...

Anterior interosseous nerve paralysis due to Gantzer's muscle.

A case of an older female patient with paralysis of the anterior interosseous nerve is reported. During exploration an accessory muscle slip running from the coronoid process of the ulna towards the flexor pollicis longus (Gantzer's muscle) was found compressing the nerve.

Hypokalaemic paralysis due to carbenoxolone.

A 48 year old man was admitted with a four-day history of muscle cramps and paralysis. Two months previously the patient had been treated in another hospital for haematemesis arising from a lesser-curve gastric ulcer. At that time the serum potassium was 3.44 m.Eq/ 1. He received 6 units of whole blood. Five days later carbenoxolone sodium 150 mg daily was commenced. No other drugs were prescri...