Hee Woo Lee; Sun Ok Song; Beo Deul Kang; Shi Heon Dong; Yuri Kim; Youn Hee Park; Hyuk Min Lee; Kkot Sil Lee

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Lee, Song, Kang, Dong, Kim, Park, Lee, and Lee: Guillain-Barré Syndrome in a Patient with Chemotherapy for HIV Related Burkitt's Lymphoma

Case Report

Infection & Chemotherapy

Infection & Chemotherapy 2011; 43(2): 206-209.

Published online: 30 April 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3947/ic.2011.43.2.206

Guillain-Barré Syndrome in a Patient with Chemotherapy for HIV Related Burkitt's Lymphoma

Hee Woo Lee¹, Sun Ok Song¹, Beo Deul Kang¹, Shi Heon Dong¹, Yuri Kim¹, Youn Hee Park², Hyuk Min Lee², Kkot Sil Lee¹

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Kwandong University College of Medicine, Goyang, Korea.

²Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kwandong University College of Medicine, Goyang, Korea.

Correspondence to Kkot Sil Lee, M.D. Department of Internal Medicine, Kwandong University College of Medicine, 697-24, Hwajung-dong, Deogyang-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do 412-270, Korea. Tel: +82-31-810-6032, Fax: +82-31-810-5109, florid@kd.ac.kr

Received 20 April 2010 Revised 21 October 2010 Accepted 21 October 2010

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Abstract

Human immunodeficiency virus infection is not a common cause of Guillain-Barré syndrome. Guillain-Barré syndrome with cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis has been associated with early human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, occasionally as the presenting manifestation. We report a case of 73-year-old Korean malen with acute motor axonal variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome during chemotherapy for HIV- related Burkitt's lymphoma. This is the first report of Guillain-Barré syndrome occurringed within HIV infection in Korea.

Keywords: Guillain-Barré syndrome, Burkitt's lymphoma, HIV infection

Figures and Tables

Figure 1

(A) Bone marrow smear showing lymphoblasts containing deeply basophilic cytoplasm and abundant lipid vacuoles in the cytoplasm (Wright stain, ×100). (B) Bone marrow biopsy showing characteristic "starry sky" appearance (H&E stain, ×1,000).

Table 1

Results of Nerve Conduction Studies of Sensorimotor Polyneuropathy

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