Age and Ageing Advance Access originally published online on November 9, 2007
Age and Ageing 2008 37(2):229-230; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm151
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Post-influenza vaccine chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneruopathy
Department of Elderly Care Medicine, Central Middlesex Hospital, Acton Lane, London NW10 7 NS, UK
Address correspondence to: Dr J. Birns. Tel: 0208 959 7302; Fax: 0207 346 3195. Email: jonathan.birns{at}kcl.ac.uk
Abstract
We present a case of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy occurring subsequent to influenza vaccination in a 74-year-old gentleman with no previous neurological history.
Keywords: CIDP, influenza vaccine, neuropathy, autoimmune
Received 20 April 2007; accepted in revised form 20 July 2007.