AN ACUTE SENSORIMOTOR POLYNEUROPATHY CASE AFTER SCORPION STING AND ADMINISTRATION OF IMMUNE SERUME- TETANUS VACCINE

Volume: 46 Number: 1 March 1, 2007
  • Nurşen Kömürcülü
  • Ebru Bakar
  • Hatice Mavioğlu
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AN ACUTE SENSORIMOTOR POLYNEUROPATHY CASE AFTER SCORPION STING AND ADMINISTRATION OF IMMUNE SERUME- TETANUS VACCINE

Abstract

Serum and toxins used in animal stings are immunogenic agents. They can cause multiple immune neurologic disease including inflammatory polyneuropathy. Forty three years old male were. He referred with the symptoms of paresthesia and weakness of extremities 10 days after the scorpion sting and tetanus vaccine and scorpion serum had been administered. Acute sensorimotor polyneuropathy was diagnosed with clinical and laboratory findings. After IVIG treatment the clinical findings improved. Due to the fact that Acute sensorimotor polyneuropathy appeared 10 days after the event, it was thought that the situation was dependent on immune response, which had been created by scorpion serum and tetanus vaccine, but not by toxins. Since there is no polyneuropathy case reported after scorpion serum administration and it is very rarely associated with the vaccine, we think the case is valuable for presenting.

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Nurşen Kömürcülü

Ebru Bakar

Hatice Mavioğlu

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March 1, 2007

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March 1, 2007

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Year 2007 Volume: 46 Number: 1

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1.Nurşen Kömürcülü, Ebru Bakar, Hatice Mavioğlu. AKREP SOKMASI VE İMMUN SERUM-TETANUS AŞISI UYGULAMASI SONRASINDA GELİŞEN BİR AKUT SENSORİ-MOTOR POLİNÖROPATİ OLGUSU. EJM [Internet]. 2007 Mar. 1;46(1):41-3. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA36KR69WW

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