ArticleBMC infectious diseases2020
Concurrent acute myositis and Guillain-Barre syndrome in Cytomegalovirus infection - a rare case report.
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- Cytomegalovirus Infection Mimics Manifestations of Underlying Diseases in Patients With Autoimmune Disorders: A Case Report and Literature Review.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2026Review
- Anti-Ro-Positive Dermatomyositis Presenting as a Clinical Mimic of Guillain-Barré Syndrome: A Case Report.Cureus · 2024Article
- Case report and literature review: Acute rhabdomyolysis caused by overheating of electric blanket complicated with Guillain-Barré syndrome.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Epidemiology of the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.Nature reviews. Rheumatology · 2023Review
- About a rare association: Guillain-Barré Syndrome and polymyositis.Clinical case reports · 2022Article
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- Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) complicated by rhabdomyolysis (RML): Case reports of 2 children and literature review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Systemic flare and cutaneous ulceration following cytomegalovirus infection in a patient with anti-melanoma differentiation-associated protein 5 (MDA5) associated myositis: Diagnostic challenge during the time of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.The Egyptian rheumatologist · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundCytomegalovirus (CMV) is a double stranded DNA virus and ubiquitous in nature. Association of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) and CMV is well known but CMV acute myositis is a rare condition. Restriction of movements of limbs due to severe pain in myositis may obscure the diagnosis of GBS and this may easily miss. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we describe a 29-year-old male presenting with pain and swelling of bilateral lower limbs which progressed rapidly with increasing serum creatine kinase levels with positive IgM CMV antibodies. In view of no improvement in clinical condition, patient was further evaluated and found to have concurrent GBS. He was treated with plasmapheresis and improved.
conclusionCytomegalovirus infection presenting as acute myositis is a uncommon and further association with GBS is a rare occurrence.
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