Critical illness polyneuropathy. Regression following cardiac operation

Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2007 Jun;6(3):419-20. doi: 10.1510/icvts.2006.149575. Epub 2007 Mar 22.

Abstract

Critical illness polyneuropathy is an acute neuromuscular disorder of severely ill patients that may also occur in complicated postoperative heart surgery course. This case report should make this disease known also as a preoperative condition that may regress following a successful cardiac operation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • APACHE
  • Aged
  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures*
  • Coronary Angiography
  • Coronary Artery Bypass*
  • Critical Illness*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Echocardiography
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency / complications
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency / diagnosis
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency / surgery*
  • Polyneuropathies / diagnosis
  • Polyneuropathies / etiology*
  • Polyneuropathies / surgery*
  • Saphenous Vein / transplantation