Guillaine Barre Syndrome after OPCAB Surgery

Guillaine-barre syndrome; a rare complication of melioidosis. a case report

BACKGROUND Melioidosis caused by Burkholderia pseudomellei is an infection with protean clinical manifestations. Guillain-Barré syndrome [GBS] associated with melioidosis is very rare. CASE PRESENTATION A 42-year-old woman with diabetes presented with abdominal pain, vomiting and intermittent fever for one month. Six months before presentation she had recurrent skin abscesses. Three months be...

guillain-barre syndrome following surgery

thymoma is the most common neoplasm of anterior mediastinum with incidence peaks during the fourth, fifth and sixth decades of life. two-thirds of patients are asymptomatic and identified accidentally by chest x-rays . of the total, 40-70 % of patients have one or more parathymic syndromes of which myasthenia gravis (mg) is the most common and reported in 10-50% . gullain-barre syndrome (gbs) h...

Guillain-Barre syndrome after lumbar epidural block

Corresponding author: Yong-Hyun Cho, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul Sungsim General Hospital, 40-12, Cheongnyangni-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 131-868, Korea. Tel: 82-2-966-1616, Fax: 82-2-968-2394, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommon...

Guillain-Barre syndrome occurring after rabies vaccination.

A variety of events are associated with the onset of Guillain-Barre syndrome, including vaccinations and vaccines. These are the swine influenza vaccine, oral poliovirus vaccine and rabies vaccine. Rabies is a uniformly fatal disease. It is preventable if World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for post exposure treatment (PET) are followed. These include local treatment of wound, passive im...

The Guillain-Barre' syndrome.