Assessment of current diagnostic criteria for Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Characteristics of Guillain-Barré syndrome: brief report

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 ...

Assessment of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Paralytic Illness

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s (FDR’s) paralytic illness was diagnosed as poliomyelitis. Some of his symptoms, such as fever and motor neuron infection are consistent with symptoms typical of this condition. However, recent research has led to the insight that he possibly suffered from Guillain-Barré syndrome instead. Through Bayesian analysis on his paralytic symptoms, researchers were able to argue ...

Diagnosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome and validation of Brighton criteria.

Guillain-Barré syndrome is an acute polyradiculoneuropathy with a variable clinical presentation. Accurate diagnostic criteria are essential for patient care and research, including clinical trials and vaccine safety studies. Several diagnostic criteria for Guillain-Barré syndrome have been proposed, including the recent set by the Brighton Collaboration. In the present study we describe in det...

Residual health status after Guillain-Barré syndrome.

To study the extent to which patients experience residual problems in daily functioning several years after having Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) a survey of 123 patients who had had Guillain-Barré syndrome three to six years previously was performed, using the sickness impact profile (SIP) for measuring functional health status and a functional assessment scale (F score) for measuring physical ...

Detection of Autoantibodies against Gangliosides in Guillain-Barré Syndrome