CASE REPORT
Guillain-Barré syndrome associated with COVID-19 infection – Case Report and literature review
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Student Research Group / Second Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
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Second Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
Corresponding author
Zuzanna Paluch
Student Research Group / Second Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
Student Research Group / Second Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
J Pre Clin Clin Res. 2023;17(2):117-120
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ABSTRACT
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare, acute immune-mediated polyradiculoneuropathy that accounts for an estimated
100,000 new cases annually worldwide. The typical clinical manifestations of the disease are progressive, ascending paralysis,
classically involving bilateral upper and lower extremities. In most patients, the acute onset of neurological symptoms
is preceded by an infectious respiratory or gastrointestinal illness. The case is presented of a 50-year-old man who was
transferred to an intensive care unit from the Department of Neurology, due to a worsening state of bilateral weakness
of limbs, with symptoms of respiratory failure and hemodynamic instability. Guillain-Barré syndrome was diagnosed in
the previous clinic on the basis of the typical symptoms and results of cerebrospinal fluid, in which albuminocytological
dissociation was detected. Furthermore, two weeks previously, the patient had been infected with COVID-19.
Paluch Z, Biedroń N, Kaczmarska A, Sysiak-Sławecka J. Guillain-Barré syndrome associated with COVID-19 infection – case report and literature
review. J Pre-Clin Clin Res. 2023; 17(2): 117–120. doi: 10.26444/jpccr/166116
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