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- Title
Compromiso vesical en Síndrome de Guillain-Barré, a propósito de un caso.
- Authors
Eduardo, Cerda V.; Esteban, Espinoza G.; Carlos, Ayala P.; Denisse, Jerez S.; Hugo, Morales D.
- Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by muscle weakness, areflexia and albumin-cytological dissociation in cerebrospinal fluid, the incidence has been reported to be relatively uniform between 0.6 to 4 cases per 100.000 per year. CASE REPORT: Patient of 45 years old, female, admitted to the emergency department of Hospital de Temuco derived from Lonquimay by progressive weakness of four extremities. In Lonquimay the patient required bladder catheterization for urinary retention. It was diagnosed with GBS, hospitalized in intensive care unit, requiring assisted ventilation and treated with plasmapheresis, developing pneumonia as a complication related to mechanical ventilation and fully recovered bladder function. DISCUSSION: The bladder involvement is not described as an important factor in diagnosis and remains controversial this statement by several authors.
- Subjects
GUILLAIN-Barre syndrome; AUTOIMMUNE diseases; MUSCLE weakness; ALBUMINS; CEREBROSPINAL fluid
- Publication
Revista ANACEM, 2011, Vol 5, Issue 1, p38
- ISSN
0718-5308
- Publication type
Article