Ciguatera fish poisoning with elevated muscle enzymes and abnormal spinal MRI

Mohammad Wasay; Amanullah Sarangzai; Ather Siddiqi; Qamaruddin Nizami

Ciguatera fish poisoning with elevated muscle enzymes and abnormal spinal MRI

Mohammad Wasay, Amanullah Sarangzai, Ather Siddiqi, Qamaruddin Nizami

Section of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Medical College, Pakistan
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Division of Woman and Child Health, Medical College, Pakistan

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Abstract

We report three cases of ciguatera fish poisoning. One patient died secondary to respiratory failure. Two patients showed elevated muscle enzymes and one patients had an abnormal cervical spinal MRI. MRI findings have not been previously described. MRI findings explain the mechanism of the L'hermitte phenomenon (a common complaint) among these patients. Respiratory failure is rare in ciguatera fish poisoning. Our findings suggest this could be related to respiratory muscles involvement.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	307-309
Number of pages	3
Journal	Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health
Volume	39
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - Mar 2008

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