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Neurology
; 59(3): 458-61, 2002 Aug 13.
Artículo
en Inglés
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-12177388
RESUMEN
Strokes have been rarely associated with immunoglobulin G (IVIg) therapy. A 70-year-old woman with stable polycythemia vera developed Guillain-Barré syndrome and received IVIg, 8 days following which she became comatose due to bilaterally symmetric cerebral infarcts. Autopsy showed intravascular aggregates of fibrin-IgG but also platelets and a necrotizing microangiopathy in the infarcts.