Thoracic Research and Practice
Case report

Successful Weaning After Plasmapheresis Performed in a Patient with Myasthenic Crisis Provoked by Listeria Meningoencephalitis

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Hacettepe University School of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine Medical-Intensive Care Unit Ankara, Turkey

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Hacettepe University School of Medicine Department of Neurology Ankara, Turkey

Thorac Res Pract 2001; 2: Turkish Respiratory Journal 44-46
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We report the development of acute respiratoiy failure in a myasthenic patient who was on immunosuppressive treatment. The patient was hospitalized due to myasthenic crisis provoked by listeria meningoencephalitis. He had to be intubated and mechanical ventilation was started due to acute hypercapnic respiratory failure. The patient could not be weaned from the ventilator despite intravenous immunoglobulin treatment and treatment for listeria infection. After 8 courses of plasmaphere­sis, he recovered and was successfully weaned from the venti­lator.

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