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Neuropsychological/-psychiatric deficits in immune-mediated neuropathies.

Chan A, Gold R

Department of Neurology, Ruhr-University Bochum, St. Josef-Hospital, Gudrunstr. 56, 44791, Bochum, Germany, Andrew.Chan@rub.de.

Albeit common, neuropsychological/psychiatric defi in patients with autoimmune-mediated neuropathies have not received much attention; however, they can impose a considerable clinical problem. Especially in intensive-care treated Guillain Barré syndrome (GBS) severe psychosis may occur which may go unrecognised due to the severity of the neurological motor deficits. Fatigue may result in a major restriction of quality of life long after the acute phase of GBS and is also a major debilitating factor in chronic inflammatory neuropathies. Symptomatic treatment remains largely empirical.

Published 15 May 2007 in J Neurol, 254: II93-II95.
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