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X Roux1, C Gramond, T De Greslan
1Service de neurologie, hôpital d'instruction des armées du Val-de-Grâce, 74, boulevard de Port-Royal, 75230 Paris cedex 5, France. xavier.roux1@voila.fr
Abstract:
The Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute inflammatory polyradiculoneuritis. The pathophysiology remains unknown but the existence of triggering factors such as external antigens is regularly suspected. We report the case of a 30-year-old patient with a past medical history of Graves disease, who presented with GBS within the month after receiving an anti-hepatitis A vaccination. GBS rarely happens after a hepatitis A vaccination. However, the responsibility of this vaccine should be considered in the clinical presentation of an acute polyradiculoneuritis.
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