Critical illness poly-neuropathy following severe hyperpyrexia.
Two patients developed critical illness polyneuropathy after severe hyperpyrexia. Fever was secondary to a phaeochromocytoma in one patient and sepsis in the other. These observations suggest that high fever may be one possible aetiology of critical illness polyneuropathy.
Wilmshurst
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Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, UK.
Treacher
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DF
Lantos
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PL
Wiles
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CM
D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000150:complications; D016638:Critical Illness; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000150:complications