Acute, severe self-limiting dysautonomia and hypertensive encephalopathy
| Autor: | David A Hughes, Joyce Davidson, Richard Appleton, Sarah F Dixon, Brian Tedman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics Hypertensive encephalopathy Adolescent Encephalopathy Guillain-Barre Syndrome Severity of Illness Index Diagnosis Differential Central nervous system disease Developmental Neuroscience Seizures Hypertensive Encephalopathy medicine Humans Paresthesia Child Dysesthesia Guillain-Barre syndrome business.industry Brain Dysautonomia Erythromelalgia medicine.disease Magnetic Resonance Imaging Surgery Allodynia Autonomic Nervous System Diseases Neurology Acute Disease Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Etiology Female Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Pediatric Neurology. 25:319-324 |
| ISSN: | 0887-8994 |
| Popis: | We describe two unrelated children with almost identical clinical illnesses comprising of severe, burning dysesthesia, allodynia, hypertensive encephalopathy, and laboratory evidence of both sympathetic and parasympathetic autonomic disturbance after a nonspecific viral illness. No underlying etiology was identified. Both patients displayed complete resolution of their clinical and radiologic findings after a number of months, and there was no recurrence over a follow-up period of 17 months to 4 years. Treatment of the patients' dysesthesias proved difficult, requiring multiple analgesics and intensive physiotherapy. We speculate that their illnesses may represent a pure autonomic variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome. |
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