Flaccid Paralysis with Hyponatremia: Think Guillain-Barre Syndrome

Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is the most common cause of flaccid paralysis in affected patients. Here we present a case of GBS presenting with flaccid paralysis as well as hyponatremia. The association of hyponatremia in GBS is discussed, as well as other potential causes and risk factors.

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Autores principales: Griffin, Daniel, Asad, Hussein, Patel, Parth, Gohar, Ashraf
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7101241/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32257660
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7113
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description Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is the most common cause of flaccid paralysis in affected patients. Here we present a case of GBS presenting with flaccid paralysis as well as hyponatremia. The association of hyponatremia in GBS is discussed, as well as other potential causes and risk factors.
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spelling pubmed-71012412020-04-02 Flaccid Paralysis with Hyponatremia: Think Guillain-Barre Syndrome Griffin, Daniel Asad, Hussein Patel, Parth Gohar, Ashraf Cureus Internal Medicine Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is the most common cause of flaccid paralysis in affected patients. Here we present a case of GBS presenting with flaccid paralysis as well as hyponatremia. The association of hyponatremia in GBS is discussed, as well as other potential causes and risk factors. Cureus 2020-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7101241/ /pubmed/32257660 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7113 Text en Copyright © 2020, Griffin et al. http://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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Flaccid Paralysis with Hyponatremia: Think Guillain-Barre Syndrome
title Flaccid Paralysis with Hyponatremia: Think Guillain-Barre Syndrome
title_full Flaccid Paralysis with Hyponatremia: Think Guillain-Barre Syndrome
title_fullStr Flaccid Paralysis with Hyponatremia: Think Guillain-Barre Syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Flaccid Paralysis with Hyponatremia: Think Guillain-Barre Syndrome
title_short Flaccid Paralysis with Hyponatremia: Think Guillain-Barre Syndrome
title_sort flaccid paralysis with hyponatremia: think guillain-barre syndrome
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7101241/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32257660
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7113
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