Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal (Oct 2007)

Peaked T - Waves and Sinus Arrhythmia Before Prolonged Sinus Pauses and Atrioventricular Block in Guillain-Barre Syndrome

  • Adriano Tonelli,
  • Atul Khasnis,
  • George S Abela

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 4
pp. 249 – 252

Abstract

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An 18-year-old woman presented with a rapidly progressive ascending flaccid paralysis and numbness requiring mechanical ventilation after an upper respiratory infection. Guillain-Barre Syndrome was diagnosed based on albumino-cytologic dissociation in the cerebrospinal fluid (elevated proteins with normal white blood cell count) and a demyelinating sensory-motor polyneuropathy pattern on the electromyogram. She was initially treated with intravenous immunoglobulin, but later required plasmapheresis for non-resolution of symptoms.

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