14 days ago Rachel age 19 years old was admitted to a hospital. She was perfectly healthy 19 year old and was driving in the car with her mom when her heart stopped. she went into cardiac arrest for NO apparent reason. She has been in a coma..now a semi coma state for 14 days she cannot talk or communicate. Doctors are baffled as to what is wrong with her. To date these are the tests and her heart is ok. Her neurologist states on the eeg her brain activity is normal;
TSS
Blood gases Normal
Mildly elevatedwhiteblood count
Anemia Now Resolved
Platelet Count Midly Elevated
Multiple Chest X-Ray Initially pulminairy edema, Nw improving
Complete Metabolic Panel Multiple Normal
Head CT Normal
Head/Neck MRI normal brain mild sinus infection
Echocardiagram Normal anatomy and function
EKG Normal axis forms and intervals
Thyroid normal
B-12Level normal
ESR mildly elevated
CRP markedly elevated, improving
immunoglobulin levels normal lgM, mildly decreased lgG
Clotting studies mildly prolonged, improving
Lead level Normal
Blood Cultures- multiple Negtive
Urine Cultures Multiple, negative
Urinalysis(blood, protein,glucose, etc..) normal
CSF Spinal Fluid Studies:
Cell Count, protein,glucose normal
Bacterial Culture-Negative
Enterovirus PCR-Negative
Herpes Simplex virus-negative
West Nile Virus Antibodies-negative
Arbovirus panel-negative
Bartonella serum antibodies-negative
West nile virus serum antibodies-negative
Respiratory viral panel PCR-negative (includes influenza A,B,RSV,Parainfluenza,Enterovirus/Rhinovirus,Metapneumovirus,Adenovirus)
Gonorrhea,Chlamydia PCR-negative
Stool Culture-Negative
Tylenol, Asprin,Alcohol levels negative
Routine drug screen- negative
Comprehensive drug screen-negative
MDPV("bath salts") level-negative
this is what is back so far and they are still stumped.
Please Please any medical professional help us find whats wrong with Rachel.
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