Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is a group of autoimmune syndromes consisting of demyelinating and acute axonal degenerating forms of the disease. Nerve conduction study helps differentiate the heterogeneous subtypes of GBS. Patients exhibit a progressive paralysis that reaches a plateau phase. In most patients, resolution is complete or near complete. Mortality from GBS most often is associated ...

To the Editor: We report the case of a 3 year-old girl with Guillain-Barre syndrome and idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. She was admitted to the Children's Hospital of Tunis because she suddenly developed, some days after an upper respiratory tract infection, bilateral and symmetric weakness of the lower limbs. During the first week, she suffered from abdominal muscle weakness with moderate...

The following report describes two patients with polyradiculoneuropathy of unknown aetiology and displaying degeneration of the spinal cord secondary to severe and long-standing damage to the spinal nerve roots. With the possible exception of the tabetic form of syphilis, where the relationship of spinal cord lesions to spinal root pathology is still open to question 1963), cord involvement is ...

There are two main hypotheses concerning the aetiology of the Guillain-Barre syndrome. First, that it is a primary virus infection, and, secondly, that it is a form of 'neuro-allergy' (Furtado, 1950) with the allergic state resulting from either an antecedent illness (usually a virus disease) or an immunizing injection. The terms 'acute infectious polyneuritis' and 'acute post-infective polyneu...

With the reduction of poliomyelitis Guillain Barre Syndrome has become the most common cause of acute flaccid paralysis in both developed and developing countries with an incidence 0.9-1.1 cases per 100000 children below 15 years of age [1,2]. A common misconception is that the GBS has a good prognosisbut up to 20% of patients remain severely disabled and approximately 5% die, despite immunothe...

The syndrome of acute inflammatory idiopathic polyneuropathy is well known, the predominently motor type of which is recognised by the name of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), in which the maximum neurological deficit develops rapidly in days, plateaus for weeks and then subsides with the recovery occurring in weeks to months. Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) has e...

Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infection has not often been related to the development of Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS). However, the close temporal relationship noted between varicella infection and the onset of GBS suggests the participation of VZV in the etiopathogenesis of GBS. Very few cases have been reported showing this relationship. This report describes 2 cases highly suggestive of this...

● Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and Juvenile RA (JRA) joints; less commonly lung, skin ● Lupus (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus) skin, joints, kidneys, heart, brain, red blood cells, other ● Scleroderma skin, intestine, less commonly lung ● Sjogren's syndrome salivary glands, tear glands, joints ● Goodpasture's syndrome lungs, kidneys ● Wegener's granulomatosis blood vessels, sinuses, lungs, kidneys ●...

● Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and Juvenile RA (JRA) joints; less commonly lung, skin ● Lupus (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus) skin, joints, kidneys, heart, brain, red blood cells, other ● Scleroderma skin, intestine, less commonly lung ● Sjogren's syndrome salivary glands, tear glands, joints ● Goodpasture's syndrome lungs, kidneys ● Wegener's granulomatosis blood vessels, sinuses, lungs, kidneys ●...

background: incidence and predominant subtype  of guillain-barre syndrome (gbs) differs geographically. electrophysiology has an important  role in early diagnosis and  prediction  of prognosis. this study  is conducted to determine the frequent  subtype  of gbs in a large group of patients  in iran and compare  nerve conduction studies in axonal and demyelinating forms of gbs. methods:    we  ...