%0 Journal Article
%T Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (Guillain-Barr¨¦ syndrome) following dengue fever
%A Gon£¿alves
%A Eduardo
%J Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de S£¿o Paulo
%D 2011
%I Instituto de Medicina Tropical
%R 10.1590/S0036-46652011000400009
%X this paper reports a case of dengue in a six-year-old female child who suddenly developed excruciating headaches, fever, myalgia and paresis. laboratory examinations included blood count, platelet count, biochemical tests (bun, creatinine, aminotransferases, and total bilirubin and bilirubin fractions) and specific igm titers (enzyme-immunoassay with recombinant tetravalent dengue). after ten days of hospitalization and having already been in a home environment, a new clinical image emerged, characterized by dysphagia, dysphonia, weakness, peripheral facial palsy and paresthesia. the diagnosis of guillain-barr¨¦ syndrome was based on clinical findings, cerebrospinal fluid examination, electrophysiological findings and the exclusion of other pathologies. our case, as some shown in previous reports, calls attention to the possibility that guillain-barr¨¦ syndrome may occur in association with dengue.
%K acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy
%K dengue fever
%K guillain-barr¨¦ syndrome
%K neurological dengue.
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