title: [Myopathy causing acute tetraparesis in the intensive care unit].
abstract: This is a case report of a 52-year-old woman with acute respiratory distress who shortly after admission to the intensive care unit developed flaccid tetraparesis with areflexia and elevated serum creatine kinase concentration. Typical clinical presentation, clinical neurophysiological examination and histology confirmed the presence of a necrotizing severe myopathy known as "myopathy with thick fibre loss", a serious but also most often spontaneously reversible condition.
authors.forename: Janus Kaufmann
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Lindqvist
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lauritzen
authors.forename: Henning
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Laursen
authors.affiliation: Klinisk Neurofysiologisk Afdeling, Glostrup Hospital, Nordre Ringvej 57, 2600 Glostrup. E-mail: krisztina.benedek@regionh.dk.
authors.forename: Krisztina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Benedek
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008875:Middle Aged; D018656:Muscle Fibers, Fast-Twitch / Q000473:pathology; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000209:etiology*