Fatal, paraparetic acute motor axonal neuropathy, early complicating chemotherapy with nab-paclitaxel

Anticancer Drugs. 2019 Apr;30(4):422-424. doi: 10.1097/CAD.0000000000000739.

Abstract

So far, very few cases describing an interrelation between chemotherapy and Guillain-Barré syndrome have been published. We describe the first case of a paraparetic, pure acute motor axonal neuropathy variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome, early complicating protein-bound paclitaxel (nab-paclitaxel/abraxane) chemotherapy (first and sole session at a 350 mg dose) in a female patient with metastatic breast cancer. Although our patient was treated with the standard regimen of intravenous immunoglobulin for 5 days, she showed no evidence of motor improvement and died 1 month after the onset of the neurological deficit.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Albumins / adverse effects*
  • Breast Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Breast Neoplasms / secondary
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Guillain-Barre Syndrome / chemically induced
  • Guillain-Barre Syndrome / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Paclitaxel / adverse effects*

Substances

  • 130-nm albumin-bound paclitaxel
  • Albumins
  • Paclitaxel