• Eur. J. Med. Res. · Feb 2015

    Case Reports

    Acute quadriplegia caused by necrotizing myopathy in a renal transplant recipient with severe pneumonia: acute onset and complete recovery.

    • Guo-Wei Tu, Jie-Qiong Song, Simon Kang Seng Ting, Min-Jie Ju, Hong-Yu He, Ji-Hong Dong, and Zhe Luo.
    • Department of Critical Care Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, PR, China. tu.guowei@zs-hospital.sh.cn.
    • Eur. J. Med. Res. 2015 Feb 3; 20: 11.

    AbstractCritical illness polyneuropathy and myopathy are multifaceted complications that follow severe illnesses involving the sensorimotor axons and proximal skeletal muscles. These syndromes have rarely been reported among renal transplant recipients. In this paper, we report a case of acute quadriplegia caused by necrotizing myopathy in a renal transplant recipient with severe pneumonia. The muscle strength in the patient's extremities improved gradually after four weeks of comprehensive treatment, and his daily life activities were normal a year after being discharged.

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