Mayo Clinic proceedings
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Mayo Clinic proceedings · Oct 1994
Case ReportsThe clinical spectrum of critical illness polyneuropathy.
To describe the entity of critical illness polyneuropathy and review our experience with six cases. ⋯ Polyneuropathy in critically ill patients may be a cause of severe generalized limb weakness and occurs in the setting of a sepsis syndrome. The long-term outcome is good in patients who recover from the underlying critical illness. Compression neuropathies may be a cause of permanent sequelae.