title: Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy following malaria.
abstract: Among the neurologic complications of malaria, acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy is a rarely reported phenomenon. We describe a patient with acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy following malaria in a 26-year-old traveler to an endemic area and review the clinical features of all 23 previously reported patients. Malarial infection should be considered as a potential preceding trigger in patients residing in or travelers returning from malaria-endemic areas presenting with the clinical features of acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy in the setting of a recent or ongoing febrile illness.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: aberkowitz3@partners.org.
authors.forename: Aaron L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Berkowitz
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Kiran T
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: Thakur
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D020275:Guillain-Barre Syndrome / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000150:complications*; D014195:Travel
keywords: Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy; Guillain–Barré syndrome; Malaria; Tropical neurology