Critical illness polyneuropathy. Regression following cardiac operation.
Critical illness polyneuropathy is an acute neuromuscular disorder of severely ill patients that may also occur in complicated postoperative heart surgery course. This case report should make this disease known also as a preoperative condition that may regress following a successful cardiac operation.
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti di Trieste, Ospedale di Cattinara, strada di Fiume, 447 - 34100 Trieste, Italy. giusep.gatti@tiscali.it
Giuseppe
G
Gatti
Paolo
P
Grassi
Luciano
L
Silvestri
Bartolo
B
Zingone
D018806:APACHE; D000368:Aged; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D016638:Critical Illness; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D011115:Polyneuropathies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation