Guillain-Barré Syndrome due to CMV Reactivation after Cardiac Transplantation

A 40-year-old male patient suffered from end-stage heart failure due to ischemic cardiomyopathy and received orthotopic cardiac transplantation in June 2005. The instantaneous postoperative course was uneventful, but, seven months later, he suffered from paralysis in the lower extremities finally re...

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Autores principales: Steger, Christina Maria, Antretter, Herwig, Höfer, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24860678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/506290
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description A 40-year-old male patient suffered from end-stage heart failure due to ischemic cardiomyopathy and received orthotopic cardiac transplantation in June 2005. The instantaneous postoperative course was uneventful, but, seven months later, he suffered from paralysis in the lower extremities finally resulting in quadriplegia and was admitted to hospital. After laboratory testings the diagnosis of a Guillain-Barré syndrome due to cytomegalovirus reactivation was confirmed.
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spelling pubmed-40084782014-05-25 Guillain-Barré Syndrome due to CMV Reactivation after Cardiac Transplantation Steger, Christina Maria Antretter, Herwig Höfer, Daniel Case Rep Cardiol Case Report A 40-year-old male patient suffered from end-stage heart failure due to ischemic cardiomyopathy and received orthotopic cardiac transplantation in June 2005. The instantaneous postoperative course was uneventful, but, seven months later, he suffered from paralysis in the lower extremities finally resulting in quadriplegia and was admitted to hospital. After laboratory testings the diagnosis of a Guillain-Barré syndrome due to cytomegalovirus reactivation was confirmed. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4008478/ /pubmed/24860678 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/506290 Text en Copyright © 2012 Christina Maria Steger et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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Guillain-Barré Syndrome due to CMV Reactivation after Cardiac Transplantation
title Guillain-Barré Syndrome due to CMV Reactivation after Cardiac Transplantation
title_full Guillain-Barré Syndrome due to CMV Reactivation after Cardiac Transplantation
title_fullStr Guillain-Barré Syndrome due to CMV Reactivation after Cardiac Transplantation
title_full_unstemmed Guillain-Barré Syndrome due to CMV Reactivation after Cardiac Transplantation
title_short Guillain-Barré Syndrome due to CMV Reactivation after Cardiac Transplantation
title_sort guillain-barré syndrome due to cmv reactivation after cardiac transplantation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008478/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/506290
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