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Age and Ageing Advance Access published online on November 9, 2007
Age and Ageing, doi:10.1093/ageing/afm151
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society.

Case Report

Post-influenza vaccine chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneruopathy

J. M. Brostoff, Y. Beitverda and J. Birns

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.


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