Paradoxical Patellar Reflex As A Presenting Sign Of Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy.

Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy following malaria.

Among the neurologic complications of malaria, acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy is a rarely reported phenomenon. We describe a patient with acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy following malaria in a 26-year-old traveler to an endemic area and review the clinical features of all 23 previously reported patients. Malarial infection should be considered as...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy: in a remote northern Ontario hospital.

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is an acquired demyelinating syndrome that targets myelin sheaths of the peripheral nervous system. The course might be relapsing or steady, or follow a stepwise progression, with most younger individuals presenting with the relapsing course and older individuals presenting with the progressive course.1 It is more common in men, a...

Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy and a Unilateral Babinski/Plantar Reflex

Acquired acute demyelinating peripheral polyneuropathy (AADP) is a general classification of pathologies that could affect secondary the peripheral nervous system. They are characterized by an autoimmune process directed towards myelin. Clinically they are characterized by progressive weakness and mild sensory changes. Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy often is referred to as Guil...

Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) With a Focus on Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (AIDP) Clinical Summary Sheet - English, EN

Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy following varicella.

Four cases of acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy following varicella are described. The role of immunosuppression as a contributing factor in triggering an autoimmune disease of the peripheral nervous system following viral infection is discussed.