Guillain-Barré Syndrome After Primary Cytomegalovirus Infection in a Patient With a Heart Transplant

Peter Ting, MD; Anton Camaj, MD, MS; Solomon Bienstock, MD; Alex Choy, MD; Sumeet S. Mitter, MD, MSc; Maya Barghash, MD; Donna Mancini, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Mar 2021)

Guillain-Barré Syndrome After Primary Cytomegalovirus Infection in a Patient With a Heart Transplant

Peter Ting, MD,
Anton Camaj, MD, MS,
Solomon Bienstock, MD,
Alex Choy, MD,
Sumeet S. Mitter, MD, MSc,
Maya Barghash, MD,
Donna Mancini, MD

Affiliations

Peter Ting, MD: The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, USA
Anton Camaj, MD, MS: The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, USA
Solomon Bienstock, MD: The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, USA
Alex Choy, MD: The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, USA
Sumeet S. Mitter, MD, MSc: The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, USA
Maya Barghash, MD: The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, USA
Donna Mancini, MD: The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, USA; Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA; Address for correspondence: Dr. Donna Mancini, Mount Sinai Hospital, 1190 5th Avenue, New York, New York 10029, USA.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 3
pp. 455 – 458

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A 56-year-old man underwent cardiac transplantation in April 2018. His post-operative course was uncomplicated and he had normal allograft function. On December 2019 he was admitted for fever and diarrhea and was found to have cytomegalovirus infection. A few weeks later, he presented with Guillain-Barré Syndrome. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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