Acquired neuromuscular weakness often develops in patients with an acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), particular who are ventilated and sedated for long periods. This has been rarely described the literature on ARDS secondary to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Our clinical case revealed existence of these manifestations COVID-19 disease after use hydroxyzine, antihistamine whose side-effects unk...

Acute and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathies represent an important group of disorders. Although the acute form is more common, all clinical neurologists will eventually encounter patients with these disorders. Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, or Guillain-Barré syndrome, is the most common cause of acute generalized weakness. Chronic inflammatory demyelinating p...

A 31 year old man, admitted because of acute onset of fever and chills as well as anorexia and weakness. Positive findings included an ejection systolic murmur a W.B.C of 15200 with Eosino­phillia;a R.B.B.B. Pattern in E.C.G., a lobulated mass in upper part of the septum in Echocardio­gram. Patient underwent cardiac surgery with tricuspid replacement, and diagnosis of Hydatid cyst was confirmed. 

There have been occasional reports of acute respiratory and skeletal muscle weakness in intensive care unit patients treated with massive doses of corticosteroids. However, in this setting the concomitant use of other drugs may have influenced the finding. In this study the effects of 5 days of treatment with high doses of steroids in consecutive patients with acute lung rejection after transpl...

Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is a common cause of acute peripheral neuropathy and is characterized by hyporeflexia or areflexia. Hyperreflexia has been rarely reported with acute motor axonal neuropathy. A 10-year-old boy presented with asymmetrical weakness of upper and lower limbs and change of voice. Weakness progressed in the hospital with involvement of multiple cranial nerves, preserved ...

To the Editor: A 55‐year‐old woman presented with sudden onset symmetric weakness of both lower limbs along with truncal weakness and urinary retention for 7 days. However, she denied any history of pain, trauma, loss of consciousness, or any evidence of upper limb weakness, breathlessness, or cranial nerve involvement. According to history, a provisional diagnosis of acute transverse myelitis ...

Neuromuscular abnormalities developing as a consequence of critical illness can be found in the majority of patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit (ICU) for 1 week or more (1–3). The spectrum of illness ranges from isolated nerve entrapment with focal pain or weakness, to disuse muscle atrophy with mild weakness, to severe myopathy or neuropathy with associated severe, prolonged weakn...