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Hepatitis C associated with Guillain-Barré syndrome
F Lacaille1, H Zylberberg, H Hagège
1Department of Paediatrics, Hôpital des Enfants Malades, Paris, France.
Liver
|April 21, 1998
Abstract:
Hepatitis C is frequently associated with immune-mediated diseases, such as cryoglobulinemia. Guillain-Barré syndrome is an acute demyelinating neuropathy of probable immune pathogenesis. We describe two patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome, and associated chronic hepatitis C, the second one previously treated with interferon. The link between both conditions may be hepatitis C being the trigger of this immune polyneuropathy. Guillain-Barré syndrome should be added to the list of conditions associated with hepatitis C.