Measles virus and Guillain-Barré syndrome during long-term hemodialysis
Drüeke, T.B.; Pujade-Lauraine, E.; Poisson, M.; Zingraff, J.; Ulmann, A.; Crosnier, J.
American Journal of Medicine 60(3): 444-446
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-9343 PMID: 1258891 Document Number: 104059
In a black man recently receiving long-term hemodialysis, a severe rapidly progressive polyradiculoneuritis (Guillain-Barre syndrome) developed. Routine virologic study revealed a high antimeasles virus antibody titer (1:1280 by hemagglutination-inhibition) which progressively decreased. There was no clinical evidence of measles. Discussed here is the possible relationship between the Guillain-Barre syndrome and clinically inapparent measles associated with and perhaps modified by the uremic state.