Abstract
This is a case report of a 52-year-old woman with acute respiratory distress who shortly after admission to the intensive care unit developed flaccid tetraparesis with areflexia and elevated serum creatine kinase concentration. Typical clinical presentation, clinical neurophysiological examination and histology confirmed the presence of a necrotizing severe myopathy known as "myopathy with thick fibre loss", a serious but also most often spontaneously reversible condition.
Translated title of the contribution | Myopathy causing acute tetraparesis in the intensive care unit. |
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Original language | Danish |
Journal | Ugeskrift for Laeger |
Volume | 176 |
Issue number | 31 |
Pages (from-to) | 2-3 |
Number of pages | 2 |
ISSN | 0041-5782 |
Publication status | Published - 28 Jul 2014 |