We report a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who developed severe atypical neuropathy (SAN), distinct from classical vincristine neuropathy, following the use of vincristine and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). SAN was characterized by acute onset of severe pain, exquisite tenderness on even light touch and profound motor weakness involving predominantly the lower limbs. ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the prognostic value of the pretreatment and post-treatment albumin level, neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), and platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) in subtypes of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). A retrospective analysis of 62 patients with GBS treated between 2011 and 2015 in Dicle University Hospital, Turkey, was carried out. The pretreatment and post-...

Objective: To determine the frequency of axonal variants in our patients of Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Study Design: Descriptive study. Place and Duration: Department of Neurology, Military Hospital, Rawalpindi and Armed Forces Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (AFIRM) from 01 Jan 2009 to 30 Jul 2010. Patients and Methods: Forty adult patients meeting the National Institute of Neurological Dis...

Idiopathic CD4(+) T-lymphocytopenia is a rare immune disorder characterized by an unexplained deficit of CD4(+) T cells and results in various opportunistic infections. Herein, we report a case of new onset weakness in a 10-year-old boy secondary to motor axonal neuropathy associated with idiopathic CD4(+) T-lymphocytopenia. The patient was referred to rehabilitation for an evaluation of progre...