Introduction: This article is part of the Focus Theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on “New Methodologies for Patients Rehabilitation”. Objectives: For Guillain-Barré patients, motor rehabilitation programs are helpful at the onset to prevent the complications of paralysis and in cases of persistent motor impairment. Traditional motor rehabilitation programs may be tedious and monotonou...

Abstract : BACKGROUND: Guillain-Barrsyndrome is an autoimmune peripheral neuropathy characterized by progressive symmetrical and ascending weakness and areflexia. Non-polio enterovirus (coxsackievirus type A and B, ECHO virus and enteroviruses) infections are seen in infants and children ranging from asymptomatic infection to life-threatening serious clinical conditions. Paralysis has been repo...

OBJECTIVES To examine the frequency and pathophysiology of micturitional disturbance in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome. METHODS Micturitional symptoms were noted and neurological examinations made repeatedly during admission to hospital of patients with clinical and neurophysiologically definite Guillain-Barré syndrome. Urodynamic studies consisted of uroflowmetry, measurement of resid...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Hypertrophic olivary degeneration (HOD) is usually caused by a lesion in the triangle of Guillain and Mollaret and presents clinically as palatal tremor. Although the imaging features have been well described, the temporal course of hypertrophy and T2 signal increase in the inferior olivary nucleus (ION) has not been fully characterized. Our purpose was to evaluate the ti...

Molecular mimicry between microbial and self-components is postulated as the mechanism that accounts for the antigen and tissue specificity of immune responses in postinfectious autoimmune diseases. Little direct evidence exists, and research in this area has focused principally on T cell-mediated, antipeptide responses, rather than on humoral responses to carbohydrate structures. Guillain-Barr...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS This study was carried out to investigate the incidence, annual time trend and some epidemiological and clinical features of Guillain-Barre syndrome in children in the north west of Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this population-based cross sectional research, epidemiological and clinical features of 143 cases with Guillain-Barre syndrome between 2001 and 2006 were studied...

BACKGROUND The consequences of emergency intubation in Guillain-Barré syndrome are not known. OBJECTIVE To review data from patients admitted to the intensive care unit with recent diagnosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome and intubation for respiratory failure. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS The database of patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome admitted to the intensive care units during the pas...

Objetivo: Sintetizar através de uma revisão pesquisas realizadas sobre os cuidados enfermagem aos pacientes portadores da Síndrome Guillain-Barré, juntamente com assistência sistematizada. Método: Realizou-se um estudo literatura do tipo sistemática, que proporcionou a síntese conhecimento e abordagem dos síndrome Guillain-Barré (SGB). Para buscas das publicações utilizou as seguintes bases dad...