Gert van der Hoek
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Hospital confirms growth of 300% in cases of Guillain-Barr?
01/07/2016
The year 2015 recorded a significant increase in the number of cases of Guillain-Barr? syndrome in Alagoas. There were more than 50 records of the disease treated only in the Santa Casa de Macei? - which is a reference unit in the state - and that can be directly linked to the Zika virus andChikungunya. According to the hospital, the number is over 300% higher than that recorded in the previous year.
According to the hematologist Wellington Galv?o in 2014, a total of 14 patients with the syndrome was treated at Santa Casa de Macei?. In 2015, there were more than 50. As the causes of the disease are not yet known to the medical field, the relationship between the syndrome, Zika andChikungunya is being investigated.
"Last year, I treated about 14 patients with Guillain-Barr?. So far, with the advance of Zika virus andChikungunya, we add more than 50 cases of the syndrome that reached me at the Santa Casa", considered Wellington Galv?o, who brought Alagoas for three machines of the latest generation ofplasma exchange of the 30 currently existing in Brazil.
The Guillain-Barre is a disease that affects the nervous system and can cause muscle weakness and temporary paralysis of the limbs. The treatment to be faster and more efficient, to be held in early disease. As explained by the hematologist after combat viral frame, the antibodies produced by the body start to see the nervous system as an enemy, which causes paralysis of the lower and upper limbs.
"The equipment that performs the plasmapheresis filters the blood harmful antibodies and replaces them with a neutral solution consists of albumin and serum. The result can be felt in the first 15 minutes of the first session and, in severe cases, it can take 60 days to full recovery with the help of physiotherapy, "explained Galv?o.
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01/07/2016
The year 2015 recorded a significant increase in the number of cases of Guillain-Barr? syndrome in Alagoas. There were more than 50 records of the disease treated only in the Santa Casa de Macei? - which is a reference unit in the state - and that can be directly linked to the Zika virus andChikungunya. According to the hospital, the number is over 300% higher than that recorded in the previous year.
According to the hematologist Wellington Galv?o in 2014, a total of 14 patients with the syndrome was treated at Santa Casa de Macei?. In 2015, there were more than 50. As the causes of the disease are not yet known to the medical field, the relationship between the syndrome, Zika andChikungunya is being investigated.
"Last year, I treated about 14 patients with Guillain-Barr?. So far, with the advance of Zika virus andChikungunya, we add more than 50 cases of the syndrome that reached me at the Santa Casa", considered Wellington Galv?o, who brought Alagoas for three machines of the latest generation ofplasma exchange of the 30 currently existing in Brazil.
The Guillain-Barre is a disease that affects the nervous system and can cause muscle weakness and temporary paralysis of the limbs. The treatment to be faster and more efficient, to be held in early disease. As explained by the hematologist after combat viral frame, the antibodies produced by the body start to see the nervous system as an enemy, which causes paralysis of the lower and upper limbs.
"The equipment that performs the plasmapheresis filters the blood harmful antibodies and replaces them with a neutral solution consists of albumin and serum. The result can be felt in the first 15 minutes of the first session and, in severe cases, it can take 60 days to full recovery with the help of physiotherapy, "explained Galv?o.
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