Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome and COVID-19: Case report and literature review

In recent months, the new beta-coronavirus has caused a pandemic with symptoms affecting mainly the respiratory system. It is established that the virus may play a neurotropic role and in recent months several cases of Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome (GBS) have been reported in patients infected with...

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Autores principales: Diez-Porras, Laura, Vergés, Enric, Gil, Francisco, Vidal, M José, Massons, Joan, Arboix, Adrià
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7420397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32912716
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nmd.2020.08.354
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author Diez-Porras, Laura
Vergés, Enric
Gil, Francisco
Vidal, M José
Massons, Joan
Arboix, Adrià
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description In recent months, the new beta-coronavirus has caused a pandemic with symptoms affecting mainly the respiratory system. It is established that the virus may play a neurotropic role and in recent months several cases of Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome (GBS) have been reported in patients infected with COVID-19. We report the case of a 54-year-old patient with acute demyelinating polyneuropathy during infection by SARS-CoV-2 who progressed clinically to require assisted ventilation. After several weeks of specific symptomatic treatment, the patient had a favorable outcome. In conclusion, despite being a rare complication, we think it is important to consider the possibility of diffuse involvement of the peripheral nervous system in patients with COVID-19 to adjust clinical monitoring and treatment in these cases.
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spelling pubmed-74203972020-08-12 Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome and COVID-19: Case report and literature review Diez-Porras, Laura Vergés, Enric Gil, Francisco Vidal, M José Massons, Joan Arboix, Adrià Neuromuscul Disord Case Report In recent months, the new beta-coronavirus has caused a pandemic with symptoms affecting mainly the respiratory system. It is established that the virus may play a neurotropic role and in recent months several cases of Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome (GBS) have been reported in patients infected with COVID-19. We report the case of a 54-year-old patient with acute demyelinating polyneuropathy during infection by SARS-CoV-2 who progressed clinically to require assisted ventilation. After several weeks of specific symptomatic treatment, the patient had a favorable outcome. In conclusion, despite being a rare complication, we think it is important to consider the possibility of diffuse involvement of the peripheral nervous system in patients with COVID-19 to adjust clinical monitoring and treatment in these cases. Elsevier B.V. 2020-10 2020-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7420397/ /pubmed/32912716 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nmd.2020.08.354 Text en © 2020 Elsevier B.V. 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7420397/
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