Oxford University Press, Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, 3(6), p. 419-420
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2006.149575
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Critical illness polyneuropathy is an acute neuromuscular disorder of severely ill patients that may also occur in complicated postoperative heart surgery course. This case report should make this disease known also as a preoperative condition that may regress following a successful cardiac operation.