title: Guillain-Barre syndrome associated with acute hepatitis E.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Gastroenterology Center, Jagjivanram Hospital, Mumbai.
authors.forename: Praful
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kamani
authors.forename: Rajiv
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baijal
authors.forename: Deepak
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Amarapurkar
authors.forename: Parijat
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gupte
authors.forename: Nikhil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Praveen
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Subhash
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Agal
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D020275:Guillain-Barre Syndrome / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D016751:Hepatitis E / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged