Guillain–Barre Syndrome—A Rare Cause of Quadriparesis after the Bentall Procedure for Type A Aortic Dissection

Neurological complications following aortic surgery are most often cerebrovascular accidents due to embolism, or spinal infarcts resulting in hemiparesis or hemiplegia. Guillain–Barre syndrome is a rare cause of quadriparesis. Here, we report a 49–year old male who presented with acute aortic dissec...

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Autores principales: Chellasamy, Rajeev T., Kalyanasundaram, Aravind, Munuswamy, Hemachandren, Sugumaran, Ramkumar, Meher, Rajesh K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2022
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9754875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36521812
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1756668
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author Chellasamy, Rajeev T.
Kalyanasundaram, Aravind
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Sugumaran, Ramkumar
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description Neurological complications following aortic surgery are most often cerebrovascular accidents due to embolism, or spinal infarcts resulting in hemiparesis or hemiplegia. Guillain–Barre syndrome is a rare cause of quadriparesis. Here, we report a 49–year old male who presented with acute aortic dissection and underwent the Bentall procedure following which he developed quadriparesis, subsequently diagnosed to be a case of Guillain–Barre syndrome. He was successfully treated with intravenous immunoglobulin.
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spelling pubmed-97548752022-12-16 Guillain–Barre Syndrome—A Rare Cause of Quadriparesis after the Bentall Procedure for Type A Aortic Dissection Chellasamy, Rajeev T. Kalyanasundaram, Aravind Munuswamy, Hemachandren Sugumaran, Ramkumar Meher, Rajesh K. Aorta (Stamford) Neurological complications following aortic surgery are most often cerebrovascular accidents due to embolism, or spinal infarcts resulting in hemiparesis or hemiplegia. Guillain–Barre syndrome is a rare cause of quadriparesis. Here, we report a 49–year old male who presented with acute aortic dissection and underwent the Bentall procedure following which he developed quadriparesis, subsequently diagnosed to be a case of Guillain–Barre syndrome. He was successfully treated with intravenous immunoglobulin. Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2022-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9754875/ /pubmed/36521812 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1756668 Text en The Author(s). This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, permitting unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction so long as the original work is properly cited. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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.
spellingShingle Chellasamy, Rajeev T.
Kalyanasundaram, Aravind
Munuswamy, Hemachandren
Sugumaran, Ramkumar
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Guillain–Barre Syndrome—A Rare Cause of Quadriparesis after the Bentall Procedure for Type A Aortic Dissection
title Guillain–Barre Syndrome—A Rare Cause of Quadriparesis after the Bentall Procedure for Type A Aortic Dissection
title_full Guillain–Barre Syndrome—A Rare Cause of Quadriparesis after the Bentall Procedure for Type A Aortic Dissection
title_fullStr Guillain–Barre Syndrome—A Rare Cause of Quadriparesis after the Bentall Procedure for Type A Aortic Dissection
title_full_unstemmed Guillain–Barre Syndrome—A Rare Cause of Quadriparesis after the Bentall Procedure for Type A Aortic Dissection
title_short Guillain–Barre Syndrome—A Rare Cause of Quadriparesis after the Bentall Procedure for Type A Aortic Dissection
title_sort guillain–barre syndrome—a rare cause of quadriparesis after the bentall procedure for type a aortic dissection
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9754875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36521812
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1756668
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