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Q J Med 1995; 88: 351-355
© 1995 Association of Physicians

Critical illness poly-neuropathy following severe hyperpyrexia

P.T. WILMSHURST1,, D.F. TREACHER2, P.L. LANTOS and C.M. WILES

1 Huddersfield Royal Infirmary Huddersfield 2 Intensive Care Unit, St Thomas' Hospital London 3 Department of Neuropathology, The Maudsley Hospital London 4 Department of Medicine (Neurology), University of Wales College of Medicine Cardiff, UK

Address correspondence to Dr P.T. Wilmshurst, Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, Huddersfield HD3 3EA

Received 7 November 1994 Accepted for publication 28 November 1994.


  Abstract

Two patients developed critical illness polyneuro-pathy after severe hyperpyrexia. Fever was secondary to a phaeochromocytoma in one patient and sepsis in the other. These observations suggest that high fever may be one possible aetiology of critical illness polyneuropathy.


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