Multiple cranial nerve dysfunction can occur with primary intracranial processes (neoplasm, basilarvertebral insufficiency, congenital defects, aneurysms, dural vein thrombosis, multiple sclerosis), myopathy or neuromuscular junction disorder (myasthenia gravis, botulism, orbital 'myositis', ocular myopathy), and as a manifestation of a more systemic disorder (sarcoidosis, endocrinopathy, conne...

neurological signs and symptoms are commonly associated with both hodgkin’s and non-hodgkin’s lymphoma and are mostly attributed to either direct lymphomatous involvement of the nervous system, either as a result of extension to the spinal cord or nerves, or due to infiltration by lymphoma cells and drug toxicity. guillain-barre syndrome and its variants have been reported very infrequently in ...

We discuss two of the most common of the acquired inflammatory neuropathies: Guillain-Barre syndrome and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, as well as their variants. We review their clinical presentation, electrophysiologic findings, and management, highlighting knowledge gained from the recent literature. Unfortunately, although treatments exist for both Guillain-Barre syndrom...

We report an unusual case of Guillain-Barre syndrome in a 36-year old gentleman, diagnosed based on clinical presentation, CSF analysis and nerve study tests findings, who presented to our department for elective cystoscopy and discovered at the day of surgery to have macular skin rash over the trunk and upper limbs, surgery was postponed. Then and after 12 hours he started to develop the class...

introduction guillain-barre syndrome (gbs) is an immune-mediated acute inflammatory disorder of the peripheral nervous system. infectious agents were usually accused of playing a role in the etiology of gbs. guillain-barre syndrome has rarely been reported following subdural and subarachnoid hemorrhage after head trauma. case presentation we report on a 63-year-old male patient presenting gbs f...

how to cite this article: talebian a, soltani b, talebian m. bilateral ptosis as the first presentation of guillain-barre syndrome. iran j child neurol. winter 2016; 10(1):70-72. abstract objective guillain-barre syndrome (gbs) is the most common cause of acute weakness in children. it has multiple variant forms with different presentations. a rare initial sign is ptosis. in this study, we pres...

Landry paralysis and the Guillain-Barre syndrome are not distinct entities and the differentiation, between these two diseases, is artificial (Lewy, 1945). Haymaker and Kernohan (I949) in their review on these diseases, supporting Lewy's view, proposed a new terminology of Landy-Guillain-Barre syndrome. Landry in I859 made the earliest description of the Guillain-Barre syndrome. Osler in I892 d...

This case report describes transfusion related acute lung injury with the use of intravenous immunoglobulin in a child with Guillain barre syndrome.