Guillain-Barre syndrome associated with acute hepatitis E.
A 58-year-old woman presented with a brief icteric illness followed by progressive bilateral symmetrical hypotonic areflexic muscular weakness and unilateral infranuclear facial palsy. She was diagnosed to be suffering from Guillain-Barre syndrome and acute hepatitis E. Such an association has not been described till date.
Kamani
Praful
P
Gastroenterology Center, Jagjivanram Hospital, Mumbai.
Baijal
Rajiv
R
Amarapurkar
Deepak
D
Gupte
Parijat
P
Patel
Nikhil
N
Kumar
Praveen
P
Agal
Subhash
S
D005260:Female; D020275:Guillain-Barre Syndrome / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D016751:Hepatitis E / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged