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Does COVID-19 cause axonal GBS?

• Reports of GBS associated with COVID-19 have described axonal and demyelinating subtypes. • I highlight electrodiagnostic features that suggest COVID-19 may predominantly cause axonal GBS. • The sural-sparing pattern is seen in axonal, and not just a phenomenon of demyelinating, GBS.

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Autor principal: Umapathi, Thirugnanam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7245271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32505432
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2020.05.057
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description • Reports of GBS associated with COVID-19 have described axonal and demyelinating subtypes. • I highlight electrodiagnostic features that suggest COVID-19 may predominantly cause axonal GBS. • The sural-sparing pattern is seen in axonal, and not just a phenomenon of demyelinating, GBS.
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spelling pubmed-72452712020-05-26 Does COVID-19 cause axonal GBS? Umapathi, Thirugnanam J Clin Neurosci Article • Reports of GBS associated with COVID-19 have described axonal and demyelinating subtypes. • I highlight electrodiagnostic features that suggest COVID-19 may predominantly cause axonal GBS. • The sural-sparing pattern is seen in axonal, and not just a phenomenon of demyelinating, GBS. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-08 2020-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7245271/ /pubmed/32505432 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2020.05.057 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Does COVID-19 cause axonal GBS?
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title_full Does COVID-19 cause axonal GBS?
title_fullStr Does COVID-19 cause axonal GBS?
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title_short Does COVID-19 cause axonal GBS?
title_sort does covid-19 cause axonal gbs?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7245271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32505432
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2020.05.057
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