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ArticleMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2021

A 50-Year-Old Patient with Guillain-Barré Syndrome after COVID-19: A Case Report.

Tomasz Chmiela, Michalina Rzepka, Ewa Krzystanek, Agnieszka Gorzkowska

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Article in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Tomasz ChmielaDepartment of Neurology, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, 40-752 Katowice, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-6022-7731
Michalina RzepkaDepartment of Neurology, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, 40-752 Katowice, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-4582-3954
Ewa KrzystanekDepartment of Neurology, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, 40-752 Katowice, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-4441-3088
Agnieszka GorzkowskaDepartment of Neurorehabilitation, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, 40-752 Katowice, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-5081-8343
Medical University of Silesia · PL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2, causes acute respiratory disease (coronavirus disease 2019; COVID-19). However, the involvement of other mechanisms is also possible, and neurological complications are being diagnosed more frequently. Here, we would like to present a case of a Polish patient with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), after a documented history of COVID-19: A 50-year-old man, 18 days after the onset of COVID-19 symptoms, had progressive quadriparesis preceded by 1-day sensory disturbances. Based on the clinical picture, the results of diagnostic work-up including a nerve conduction study (ENG) that revealed a demyelinating and axonal sensorimotor polyneuropathy, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis that showed albumin-cytological dissociation, an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy was confirmed, consistent with GBS. Upon a therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE), the patient's condition improved. The presented case of GBS in a patient after mild COVID-19 is the first case in Poland that has supplemented those already described in the global literature. Attention should be drawn to the possibility of GBS occurring after SARS-CoV-2 infection, even when it has a mild course.

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COVID-19Guillain-Barre SyndromeHumansMaleMiddle AgedPlasma ExchangeQuadriplegiaSARS-CoV-2acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP)coronavirusCOVID-19Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS)neuropathySARS-CoV-2

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