ASSOCIATION OF ACUTE INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY WITH ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC-LEUKEMIA AND HLA-A11

Authors
GRIGG A TAIT B DAVIS S KIERS L
Citation
A. Grigg et al., ASSOCIATION OF ACUTE INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY WITH ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC-LEUKEMIA AND HLA-A11, Journal of clinical neuroscience, 5(2), 1998, pp. 169-171
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Neurosciences,"Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Journal of clinical neuroscience → ACNP
ISSN journal
09675868
Volume
5
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
169 - 171
Database
ISI
SICI code
0967-5868(1998)5:2<169:AOAIDP>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (Guillain-Barre syndro me) developed in three patients receiving chemotherapy for acute lymph oblastic leukaemia or the closely related entity lymphoblastic lymphom a, a relationship that has not been previously described. The HLA-A11 antigen was expressed by all patients, two of whom were Chinese, raisi ng the possibility of a genetically-based immunological predisposition to GBS in this patient group. (C) Harcourt Brace & Co. Ltd 1998.