✦ LIBER ✦
Guillain-Barré syndrome triggered by influenza vaccination in a recipient of liver transplant on FK506
✍ Scribed by Joon-Shik Moon; Nizar Souayah
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 67 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1527-6465
- DOI
- 10.1002/lt.20864
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✦ Synopsis
Guillain-Barre ´syndrome (GBS) has been rarely reported after liver transplantation and generally has good outcome. We report a liver transplant patient on FK506 (tacrolimus) who developed GBS 6 months after liver transplantation. There was no evidence of liver rejection or active infection. Despite treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin, the patient expired. GBS occurred despite downregulation of T cells by FK506, suggesting that humoral dysfunction might be the predominant mechanism of GBS in this report.