A Case Report On Incomplete Locked-In Syndrome

“Locked-in syndrome” is most often caused by a lesion of the ventral pons as a result of occlusion of the basilar artery which essentially interrupts the corticobulbar and corticospinal pathways but spares both the somatosensory pathways, and the ascending neuronal systems. LIS is categorized into three: pure form, incomplete form and total form. There is no cure for LIS, nor is there a standard course of treatment. A 58 year old female with a known case of hypertension for 3 years was brought to our hospital with a sudden onset of weakness of all the four limbs and difficulty in swallowing and the case was diagnosed as Pontine infarction and she eventually developed Incomplete Locked In Syndrome.