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10580891

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-12-17
pubmed:abstractText
Critical illness neuropathy is an axonal polyneuropathy recognized more frequently in adult intensive care patients with sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction. In children the diagnosis is rarely made. Within 1 year the authors observed two children with critical illness neuropathy. Both patients, a male 6 years, 6 months of age with a brain contusion and a male 2 years, 6 months of age who underwent craniectomy for Crouzon's disease, required prolonged mechanical ventilation and developed sepsis with multiple organ dysfunction. Three to 4 weeks after successful treatment of the sepsis, a flaccid tetraparesis was noticed in both patients. Laboratory investigations of blood and cerebrospinal fluid and spinal magnetic resonance imaging revealed normal results. Electrophysiologic examinations were indicative of an axonal polyneuropathy. Spontaneous improvement occurred within several months. It is likely that critical illness neuropathy occurs more often in critically ill children than previously thought. Careful neurologic examination and early electrophysiologic investigations are necessary to establish the diagnosis. Important differential diagnoses of acquired lower motor neuron weakness in pediatric intensive care medicine are discussed.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0887-8994
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
21
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
749-53
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-5-23
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Critical illness neuropathy in pediatric intensive care patients.
pubmed:affiliation
Children's Hospital, University of Wuerzburg, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Case Reports