Guillain-Barré Syndrome After Primary Cytomegalovirus Infection in a Patient With a Heart Transplant

Peter Ting; Anton Camaj; Solomon Bienstock; Alex Choy; Sumeet S Mitter; Maya Barghash; Donna Mancini

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.12.037

Guillain-Barré Syndrome After Primary Cytomegalovirus Infection in a Patient With a Heart Transplant

JACC Case Rep. 2021 Mar 17;3(3):455-458. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.12.037. eCollection 2021 Mar.

Authors

Peter Ting¹, Anton Camaj¹, Solomon Bienstock¹, Alex Choy¹, Sumeet S Mitter¹, Maya Barghash¹, Donna Mancini^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, USA.
² Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.

Abstract

A 56-year-old man underwent cardiac transplantation in April 2018. His post-operative course was uncomplicated and he had normal allograft function. On December 2019 he was admitted for fever and diarrhea and was found to have cytomegalovirus infection. A few weeks later, he presented with Guillain-Barré Syndrome. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.).

Keywords: CMV, cytomegalovirus; GBS, Guillain-Barré Syndrome; Guillain-Barré Syndrome; cytomegalovirus; heart transplantation.

Publication types

Case Reports