Volume 24, Issue 101, January - February, 2020

Acute organophosphate poisoning presenting with Cerebral Infarction: Association or Chance?

Srinivas Naik², Sunil Kumar^1♦, Vidya Hulkoti², Abhilash Mishra², Deep Hathi², Sreekarthik Pratapa²

¹Professor and Head, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharashtra, India. 442001
²Post Graduate Resident, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharashtra, India. 442001

^♦Corresponding author
Professor and Head, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharashtra, India. 442001 Email: sunilkumarmed@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Common neurological complications of acute organophosphorous poisoning are coma, seizure, and muscle weakness with respiratory failure which occurs due to cholinergic crisis. Report of cerebral infarction associated with acute organophosphorous poisoning has rarely been published. Here we report a case of 46 year old male patient admitted for alleged history of suicidal organophosphorous poisoning presented with acute hemiplegia and his MRI brain revealed acute infarctions in left cerebral hemisphere.

Keywords: organophosphorous, poisoning, cerebral infarction, cholinergic crisis

Medical Science, 2020, 24(101), 393-396

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