GUILLAIN-BARRE-SYNDROME WITH ASSOCIATED THROMBOCYTOPENIA - PROMPT RESPONSE TO COMBINED CORTICOSTEROID AND IMMUNOGLOBULIN TREATMENT

Authors
CORBANESE U MARTINUZZI A POSSAMAI C ROMEO G POSSAMAI G TRUBIAN L
Citation
U. Corbanese et al., GUILLAIN-BARRE-SYNDROME WITH ASSOCIATED THROMBOCYTOPENIA - PROMPT RESPONSE TO COMBINED CORTICOSTEROID AND IMMUNOGLOBULIN TREATMENT, Neuromuscular disorders, 8(1), 1998, pp. 50-52
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Neurosciences,"Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Neuromuscular disorders → ACNP
ISSN journal
09608966
Volume
8
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
50 - 52
Database
ISI
SICI code
0960-8966(1998)8:1<50:GWAT-P>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
We report a case of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation, associated at its presentation with thrombocy topenia, in a 50-year-old woman. She was treated with immunoglobulin, and short-term corticosteroids for thrombocytopenia. In spite of the s evere presentation we observed a very good and rapid recovery, which c ould have been determined by the therapeutic association. The incidenc e of thrombocytopenia in CBS patients could be underestimated, and sho uld be kept, in mind in order to avoid hemorrhagic complications, (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.