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Guillain-Barré Syndrome in a Patient Suffering Acute Myocardial Infarction

Mirella Sharma
Petar Kes
Vanja Bašić-Kes
Vjeran Nikolić-Heitzler
Vida Demarin
Slava Podobnik-Šarkanji

Abstract

We report on a patient with acute neurologic disorder, i.e. Guillain-Barré syndrome, successfully treated by plasmapheresis. The patient suffered a myocardial infarction, which has neither been defined nor described in the available literature as a causative event for acute polyradiculoneuropathy, but merely a random observation. The course of the disease in the patient was complicated by pulmonary infection which we presumed to be a precipitating factor for the occurrence of Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Keywords

Myocardial infarction - complications; Polyradiculoneuropathy - etiology; Polyradiculoneuropathy - therapy; Guillain-Barré syndrome; Case report

Hrčak ID:

14743

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/14743

Publication date:

2.9.2002.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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