Clinical Pain 2019;18(2):111-114

doi:10.35827/cp.2019.18.2.111

Neuropathic Pain in Guillain-Barre Syndrome Associated with Scrub Typhus

Saerom KANG 1 ; Sook Jung LEE ; Eunseok CHOI

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Keywords

Guillain-Barre syndrome; Scrub typhus; Neuralgia

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

Korean

Abstract

Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is usually characterized by acute areflexic ascending paralysis with minimal sensory involvement. Only a few cases of GBS associated with scrub typhus have been reported. Previous case reports focused on the laboratory findings, pathogenesis, and clinical manifestation. Unlike the previous case, neuropathic pain was a prominent symptom of GBS in our case. We report scrub-typhus-related GBS with a detailed description of the clinical manifestations, especially neuropathic pain, along with results of serial follow-up electrodiagnostic studies.