Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift
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Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr. · Jul 1995
Case Reports[Neuralgic amyotrophy (Parsonage-Turner syndrome) following streptokinase thrombolytic therapy].
A 61-year-old man was given short-term thrombolytic treatment with streptokinase (1.5 million IU) 6 hours after the onset of anginal symptoms. Ten days later he complained of severe pain in the right upper arm and right shoulder, and also on the left 3 days later. Simultaneously there occurred severe atrophic pareses of the supra- and infraspinatus, deltoid and rhomboid muscles bilaterally, without sensory component. ⋯ The infusion of streptokinase was the only probable cause found to explain the neuralgic amyotrophy, a connection that has never been reported until now.