Successful Treatment with Intravenous Immunoglobulin of Acute Flaccid Paralysis Caused by West Nile VirusMohammad Sami Walid, PhD; Fade Aziz Mahmoud, MD Summer 2009 - Volume 13 Number 3 https://doi.org/10.7812/TPP/09-028AbstractWest Nile virus (WNV) is one of the leading causes of insect-borne encephalitis and acute flaccid paralysis in the US. Acute flaccid paralysis is a potentially serious illness, which manifests itself as a Guillain-Barré-like syndrome with generalized weakness and shortness of breath. We report a case involving a patient who presented with acute flaccid paralysis due to WNV infection and was successfully treated with intravenous immunoglobulin from Israeli donors. |
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