• Journal of neurovirology · Oct 2020

    Case Reports

    Severe rapidly progressive Guillain-Barré syndrome in the setting of acute COVID-19 disease.

    • Rory M C Abrams, Brian D Kim, Desiree M Markantone, Kaitlin Reilly, Alberto E Paniz-Mondolfi, Melissa R Gitman, S Yoon Choo, Winona Tse, and Jessica Robinson-Papp.
    • Division of Neuromuscular Diseases and Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratories, Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, 1468 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10029, USA. Rory.Abrams@mssm.edu.
    • J. Neurovirol. 2020 Oct 1; 26 (5): 797-799.

    AbstractThere is concern that the global burden of coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection might yield an increased occurrence of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). It is currently unknown whether concomitant SARS-CoV-2 infection and GBS are pathophysiologically related, what biomarkers are useful for diagnosis, and what is the optimal treatment given the medical comorbidities, complications, and simultaneous infection. We report a patient who developed severe GBS following SARS-CoV-2 infection at the peak of the initial COVID-19 surge (April 2020) in New York City and discuss diagnostic and management issues and complications that may warrant special consideration in similar patients.

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