[Critical illness polyneuropathy--a neuromuscular complication in the intensive care patients]

Bjørn Dreijer; Susanne Kledal; Poul Jørgen Jennum

[Critical illness polyneuropathy--a neuromuscular complication in the intensive care patients]

Ugeskr Laeger. 2002 Oct 21;164(43):5035-6.

[Article in Danish]

Authors

Bjørn Dreijer¹, Susanne Kledal, Poul Jørgen Jennum

Affiliation

¹ Operations- og anaestesiologisk afdeling Y, klinisk neurofysiologisk afdeling, Amtssygehuset i Glostrup.

PMID: 12422398

Abstract

Critical illness polyneuropathy is a serious, but potentially reversible, complication following the treatment of severe infection and respiratory failure in the intensive care unit. A case of prolonged tetraparesis after severe infection and ventilatory support in a middle-aged woman is described.

Publication types

Case Reports
English Abstract

MeSH terms

Critical Care
Critical Illness* / therapy
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Humans
Middle Aged
Neuromuscular Diseases / diagnosis
Neuromuscular Diseases / etiology*
Polyneuropathies / diagnosis
Polyneuropathies / etiology*
Quadriplegia / etiology*
Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome / diagnosis
Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome / etiology