Bilateral Facial Nerve Palsy after Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Infection: A Variant of Guillain-Barre Syndrome?.
- Author:
Jong Kuk KIM
1
;
Min Jeong KIM
;
Bong Goo YOO
;
Kwang Su KIM
;
Yong Seok JANG
Author Information
1. Department of Neurology, Kosin University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea. advania9@chol.com
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Facial palsy;
Mycoplasma pneumoniae;
Guillain-Barre syndrome
- MeSH:
Antibodies;
Blinking;
Cerebrospinal Fluid;
Child;
Facial Nerve Diseases;
Facial Nerve*;
Facial Paralysis;
Female;
Guillain-Barre Syndrome*;
Humans;
Immunoglobulin M;
Mycoplasma pneumoniae*;
Mycoplasma*;
Neural Conduction;
Paralysis*;
Pneumonia, Mycoplasma*
- From:Journal of the Korean Neurological Association
2007;25(4):557-560
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
A 9-year-old girl presented with bilateral facial weakness since 10 days after upper respiratory infection. Blink reflex studies and nerve conduction studies suggested bilateral lesions of proximal facial nerves. Her serum was strongly positive for IgM antibodies to Mycoplasma pneumoniae and mildly for IgM to galactocerebroside and albuminocytologic dissociation was found in her cerebrospinal fluid. This case is of the bilateral facial neuropathy by Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection suggesting a variant of Guillain-Barre syndrome.
