Guillain-Barre syndrome following malaria

Kanjalkar, Makarand; Karnad, Dilip R.; Narayana, Randhi Venkata; Shah, PK

doi:10.1016/s0163-4453(99)90031-2

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“…6,7 Quadriparesis has also been reported in other tropical infections like leptospirosis, chikungunya fever and malaria. [8][9][10] In our patient all of these infections were excluded with appropriate investigations.…”

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Dengue fever masquerading as hypokalemic paralysis: a case report

et al. 2017

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Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne arboviral disease endemic in tropical countries. The spectrum of presentation of dengue fever ranges from classical flu like illness to dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome. It is usually regarded as a non-neurotropic virus and neurological manifestations of dengue are rare and hypokalemic quadriparesis is even rarer. Here we present a case report of a patient who presented with hypokalemic quadriparesis due to dengue.

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Dengue fever masquerading as hypokalemic paralysis: a case report

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“…P. falciparum malaria is associated with a poorer outcome compared with other types of malarial infection 5,6,9. In other reports, almost half of patients developed respiratory and bulbar paralysis, which ultimately leads to death.…”

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Facial Diplegia inPlasmodium vivaxMalaria

2010

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BackgroundFacial diplegia has diverse etiologies, including viral and bacterial infections such as diphtheria, syphilis and Lyme disease, and also protozoal infection in very rarely cases.Case ReportA 20-year-old male patient was admitted to our hospital due to bilateral weakness of the upper and lower facial muscles. Examination revealed that the patient had a facial diplegia of the peripheral type. A peripheral blood smear demonstrated the presence of the asexual trophozoite stage of Plasmodium vivax with ring-form trophozoites, which led to a diagnosis of malaria. A serum work-up revealed increased IgG titers of antibodies to myelin-associated glycoprotein and ganglioside GD1b. The patient was administered antimalarial treatment, 1 week after which he showed signs of recovery. To our knowledge, this is the first case of facial diplegia after malaria infection, providing evidence that the mechanism underlying the condition is related to immune-mediated disease.ConclusionsFacial diplegia can manifest after P. vivax infection.

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“…Rabies vaccination is followed by GBS in about one in thousand (risk being higher compared to influenza vaccination). 7 Variants of GBS like Miller-Fischer are much less common and Bouglin et al have reported incidence of 0.1 per 100000. In our study out of 34 patients we have 1 patient with classic Miller-Fischer variant (2.96%).…”

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