title: Critical illness poly-neuropathy following severe hyperpyrexia.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, UK.
authors.forename: P T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Wilmshurst
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Treacher
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Lantos
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Wiles
mesh_terms: 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