A Rare Combination: Dengue Fever Complicated With Guillain-Barre Syndrome

Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an uncommon neurological complication of dengue viral infection. It is more commonly reported with Campylobacter jejuni, Epstein-Barr virus, and Cytomegalovirus infection. We report an uncommon case of a 49-year-old man with dengue fever, who developed bilateral lowe...

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Autores principales: Lim, Chee Siew, Kaisbain, Neerusha, Lim, Wei Juan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10369010/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37503499
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40957
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description Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an uncommon neurological complication of dengue viral infection. It is more commonly reported with Campylobacter jejuni, Epstein-Barr virus, and Cytomegalovirus infection. We report an uncommon case of a 49-year-old man with dengue fever, who developed bilateral lower limb weakness and areflexia on day two of dengue illness. He was diagnosed with GBS as a sequel of dengue infection with the nerve conduction study showing evidence of demyelinating neuropathy. He recovered gradually without immunotherapy and was discharged after a week of hospitalization.
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spelling pubmed-103690102023-07-27 A Rare Combination: Dengue Fever Complicated With Guillain-Barre Syndrome Lim, Chee Siew Kaisbain, Neerusha Lim, Wei Juan Cureus Neurology Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an uncommon neurological complication of dengue viral infection. It is more commonly reported with Campylobacter jejuni, Epstein-Barr virus, and Cytomegalovirus infection. We report an uncommon case of a 49-year-old man with dengue fever, who developed bilateral lower limb weakness and areflexia on day two of dengue illness. He was diagnosed with GBS as a sequel of dengue infection with the nerve conduction study showing evidence of demyelinating neuropathy. He recovered gradually without immunotherapy and was discharged after a week of hospitalization. Cureus 2023-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10369010/ /pubmed/37503499 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40957 Text en Copyright © 2023, Lim et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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A Rare Combination: Dengue Fever Complicated With Guillain-Barre Syndrome
title A Rare Combination: Dengue Fever Complicated With Guillain-Barre Syndrome
title_full A Rare Combination: Dengue Fever Complicated With Guillain-Barre Syndrome
title_fullStr A Rare Combination: Dengue Fever Complicated With Guillain-Barre Syndrome
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Combination: Dengue Fever Complicated With Guillain-Barre Syndrome
title_short A Rare Combination: Dengue Fever Complicated With Guillain-Barre Syndrome
title_sort rare combination: dengue fever complicated with guillain-barre syndrome
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