Acute quadriplegic myopathy: A complication of treatment with steroids, nondepolarizing blocking agents, or both

Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 1992, Pages 2082-2087

  Hirano, Michio ^a   Ott, B R ^b   Raps, E C ^c   Minetti, C ^a   Lennihan, L ^a   Libbey, N P ^b   Bonilla, E ^a   Hays, A P ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b ROGER WILLIAMS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; CREATINE KINASE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYOSIN; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; STEROID; VECURONIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMATIC STATE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOPATHY; NERVE CONDUCTION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; QUADRIPLEGIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; STEROID THERAPY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGE; MUSCULAR DISEASES; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS; QUADRIPLEGIA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026455064     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.42.11.2082     Document Type: Article

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