PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Boby Varkey Maramattom
TI  - Guillain–Barré syndrome presenting with an ‘angina’ mimic and posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome
AID  - 10.7861/clinmed.2019-0207
DP  - 2019 Sep 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 409--411
VI  - 19
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/19/5/409.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/19/5/409.full
SO  - Clin Med2019 Sep 01; 19
AB  - A 56-year-old woman presented with severe headache, blurring of vision, hypertensive emergency and severe crushing central chest pain. Extensive evaluation was undertaken to rule out sinister myocardial, pulmonary and mediastinal pathology. Pain relief required intravenous opiates. One week later, persistent complaints of numbness of hands and legs led to a suspicion of dysautonomic inflammatory neuropathy. Nerve conduction studies confirmed a demyelinating Guillain–Barré syndrome. Intravenous immunoglobulin treatment led to rapid resolution of pain, dysautonomia and neuropathic symptoms.