Guillain-Barré syndrome and COVID-19: association or coincidence.
BMJ Case Rep
; 13(11)2020 Nov 30.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-975663
ABSTRACT
COVID-19 is a novel disease best known to cause a cough, fever and respiratory failure. Recently, it has been recognised that COVID-19 may present in multi-systemic ways which can cause diagnostic uncertainty or error.We present a patient who attended hospital with features of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) before developing clinical and radiological findings of COVID-19. While the authors recognise that neurological complications have been reported following COVID-19 infection, to their knowledge this report describes a unique presentation of GBS without preceding COVID-19 symptoms.Since these conditions may have considerable overlapping features including respiratory failure and (following prolonged critical care admission) profound weakness, it is possible that one diagnosis may be overlooked. Raising awareness of a possible association between these conditions is important so both are considered allowing appropriate investigations to be arranged to optimise the chance of neurological recovery and survival, while also protecting staff from potentially unrecognised COVID-19.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Respiratory Insufficiency
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Patient Care Management
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Infection Control
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Critical Illness
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Guillain-Barre Syndrome
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SARS-CoV-2
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Case report
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Diagnostic study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
English
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Bcr-2020-239241
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