Background: Guillain-Barré syndrome is an autoimmune inflammatory disease, which manifests itself as an acute motor weakness of the organs, diagnosed as affecting the motor spinal nerve roots generally and causing muscle and motor weakness, the cause of this disease is the presence of active antibodies against the myelin sheath around the spinal nerve roots. Guillain-Barré syndrome is the most ...

Dengue infection accompanied by unusual complications and manifestations has been described before. Here we report a case of dengue encephalitis who was IgM positive for dengue serology and had presented to us with only motor weakness after an acute febrile episode. Dengue presenting as encephalitis is in itself a very rare feature and that too, pure motor weakness has hardly ever been reported...

9 G uillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a heterogeneous condition with several variant forms. These acute immune-mediated polyneuropathies are classified under as Guillain-Barré syndrome. Typically, GBS presents as an acute monophasic paralyzing illness preceded by an infection. Typical clinical features of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) are progressive, symmetric muscle weakness associated with abs...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Patients with suspected stroke first assessed by ambulance paramedics require early recognition to facilitate appropriate triage and early treatment. We determined paramedic's accuracy in detecting acute stroke signs by comparing agreement between neurological signs recorded in the Face Arm Speech Test (FAST), a stroke recognition instrument, by paramedics on the scene an...

Thyrotoxic hypokalemic periodic paralysis is an uncommon complication of thyrotoxicosis, characterized by attacks of generalized muscular weakness associated with hypokalemia in patients with hyperthyroidism, most frequently with Graves-Basedow disease. Treatment with antithyroid drugs and potassium supplements reversed the symptoms and the episodes of acute muscular weakness did not reappear.

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was a prospective assessment of patient-reported side effects in an open-label study after intradetrusor botulinum toxin injections for idiopathic overactive bladder (OAB). PATIENTS AND METHODS Botulinum toxin A injection was performed in 56 patients with idiopathic OAB. Patients were followed up for 6 months concerning side effects and patients' satisfaction. ...

Respiratory failure is rarely a presenting symptom of motor neuron disease. Seven patients with motor neuron disease who presented with acute respiratory failure of unknown cause and required mechanical ventilation were studied. They all had symptoms and signs suggestive of diaphragmatic weakness. Respiratory involvement seemed disproportionately severe, as six were ambulatory and only three no...