Kenny D J, Luke D A
Department of Cardiology, Royal City of Dublin Hospital, Ireland.
Anaesthesia. 1989 Jun;44(6):483-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1989.tb11374.x.
The 'locked-in' syndrome has not previously been described in the immediate period after open-heart surgery. We describe the case of a patient who remained tetraplegic and mute, but alert, after graft surgery. A brief review of the aetiological factors in the development of this type of stroke after coronary artery bypass is presented.