Acta clinica Croatica, Vol. 41 No. 3, 2002.
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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
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14743
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Publication date:
2.9.2002.
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