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A case of acute heart failure associated with Guillain-Barré syndrome
A Palazzuoli1, C Lenzi, F Iovine
1Institute of Internal Medicine and Metabolic Diseases, Section of Cardiology, Ospedale Le Scotte, University of Siena, Italy. palazzuoli2@unisi.it
Abstract:
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a disease of the peripheral nervous system, which is caused by aberrant immune responses directed against some components of peripheral nerves. GBS is rarely accompanied by cardiovascular involvement. We describe a case of acute neuropathy complicated by sudden heart failure and left ventricular dysfunction which had a presumably neurogenic origin. Pathogenesis of acute heart failure is probably due to transitorial stunned myocardium and neurogenic cardiac injury. We show a rare case of transitorial and acute cardiac dysfunction by echocardiography and laboratory markers of heart failure.
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