Barium Carbonate Poisoning Mimicking Guillain-Barre Syndrome

Overview

Journal J Assoc Physicians India

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2001 Oct 5

PMID 11584944

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Authors

T K Koley

A K Goyal

M D Gupta

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Abstract

Areflexic quadriplegia due to barium carbonate (rat poison) poisoning is described in two young patients. These cases very closely resembled Guillain-Barre syndrome. The various effects of barium carbonate along with the pathogenesis of hypokalaemic paralysis are highlighted.

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