Facial nerve involvement in critical illness polyneuropathy

Although ICU-acquired neuromuscular weakness is a well-known problem, critical illness neuropathy is an under-diagnosed entity in critically ill patients. Facial musculature is typically not involved in critical illness neuropathy. This report highlights an unusual presentation of critical illness p...

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Autores principales: Gurjar, Mohan, Azim, Afzal, Baronia, Arvind K, Poddar, Banani
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2991662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21189890
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.71038
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author Gurjar, Mohan
Azim, Afzal
Baronia, Arvind K
Poddar, Banani
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description Although ICU-acquired neuromuscular weakness is a well-known problem, critical illness neuropathy is an under-diagnosed entity in critically ill patients. Facial musculature is typically not involved in critical illness neuropathy. This report highlights an unusual presentation of critical illness polyneuropathy in a patient with involvement of facial musculature.
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spelling pubmed-29916622010-12-28 Facial nerve involvement in critical illness polyneuropathy Gurjar, Mohan Azim, Afzal Baronia, Arvind K Poddar, Banani Indian J Anaesth Case Report Although ICU-acquired neuromuscular weakness is a well-known problem, critical illness neuropathy is an under-diagnosed entity in critically ill patients. Facial musculature is typically not involved in critical illness neuropathy. This report highlights an unusual presentation of critical illness polyneuropathy in a patient with involvement of facial musculature. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2991662/ /pubmed/21189890 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.71038 Text en © Indian Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 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 work is properly cited.
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Gurjar, Mohan
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Poddar, Banani
Facial nerve involvement in critical illness polyneuropathy
title Facial nerve involvement in critical illness polyneuropathy
title_full Facial nerve involvement in critical illness polyneuropathy
title_fullStr Facial nerve involvement in critical illness polyneuropathy
title_full_unstemmed Facial nerve involvement in critical illness polyneuropathy
title_short Facial nerve involvement in critical illness polyneuropathy
title_sort facial nerve involvement in critical illness polyneuropathy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2991662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21189890
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.71038
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