Dysgeusia in a patient with Guillain-Barré syndrome associated with acute hepatitis E: A case report and literature review

Internal Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1543-1546

  Higuchi, Masa Aki ^a   Fukae, Jiro ^a   Tsugawa, Jun ^a   Ouma, Shinji ^a   Takahashi, Kazuaki ^b   Mishiro, Shunji ^b   Tsuboi, Yoshio ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Shinagawa ku   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dysgeusia; Guillain barr syndrome; Hepatitis E; IVIg; Muscle weakness

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR; VIRUS RNA;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; DYSGEUSIA; FATIGUE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARALYSIS; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY; ACUTE DISEASE; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; GENETICS; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ODDS RATIO; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; DYSGEUSIA; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PARALYSIS; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84931051078     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.54.3506     Document Type: Article

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